getpass - read a password
#include <minix/minlib.h> char *getpass(const char *prompt)
Getpass reads a password from the file /dev/tty, or if that cannot be opened, from the standard input, after prompting with the null-terminated string prompt and disabling echo- ing. A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string of at most 32 characters, excluding the null.
crypt(3).
The return value points to static data whose content is overwritten by each call.