Re: Reading passwords

From: Naved A Surve (naved@bird.taponline.com)
Date: 02/09/96 

In message <Pine.SOL.3.91.960209162200.5893A-100000@plains> you said:

> getpass(3):
> #include <pwd.h>
> char *getpass(const char *prompt);

Almost. From the man page for getpass:

"The getpass function displays a prompt to, and reads in a password from,
/dev/tty."

Not very useful on a network application like a MUD.


Naved

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