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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
| tree | 9df484304b560466d145e662c1c254ff0e9ae0ba /static/openbsd/man3/getpass.3 | |
| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man3/getpass.3 b/static/openbsd/man3/getpass.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a83918c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man3/getpass.3 @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: getpass.3,v 1.18 2016/09/03 12:47:28 jmc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 3 2016 $ +.Dt GETPASS 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm getpass +.Nd get a password +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In pwd.h +.In unistd.h +.Ft char * +.Fn getpass "const char *prompt" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Bf -symbolic +This function is obsolete. +Consider using +.Xr readpassphrase 3 . +.Ef +.Pp +The +.Fn getpass +function displays a prompt to, and reads in a password from, +.Pa /dev/tty . +If this file is not accessible, +.Fn getpass +displays the prompt on the standard error output and reads from the standard +input. +.Pp +The password may be up to +.Dv _PASSWORD_LEN +(currently 128, as defined in the +.In pwd.h +include file) +characters in length. +Any additional +characters and the terminating newline character are discarded. +.Pp +.Fn getpass +turns off character echoing while reading the password. +.Pp +The calling process should zero the password with +.Xr explicit_bzero 3 +as soon as possible to +avoid leaving the cleartext password visible in the process's address +space. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +Upon successful completion, +.Fn getpass +returns a pointer to a NUL-terminated string of at most +.Dv _PASSWORD_LEN +characters. +If an error is encountered, the terminal state is restored and +a null pointer is returned. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /dev/tty -compact +.It Pa /dev/tty +.El +.Sh ERRORS +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINTR +The +.Fn getpass +function was interrupted by a signal. +.It Bq Er EIO +The process is a member of a background process attempting to read +from its controlling terminal, the process is ignoring or blocking +the SIGTTIN signal or the process group is orphaned. +.It Bq Er EMFILE +The process has already reached its limit for open file descriptors. +.It Bq Er ENFILE +The system file table is full. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr crypt 3 , +.Xr readpassphrase 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +Historically, +.Bx +versions of +.Fn getpass +have accepted a password on the standard input if +.Pa /dev/tty +is unavailable. +This contradicts +.St -xpg4.2 +but the +.Ox +implementation is conformant in all other respects. +Removed from +.St -p1003.1-2001 . +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Fn getpass +function appeared in +.At v7 . +.Sh CAVEATS +The +.Fn getpass +function leaves its result in an internal static object and returns +a pointer to that object. +Subsequent calls to +.Fn getpass +will modify the same object. |
