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There is important information about booting non-ack images in docs/UPDATING. ack/aout-format images can't be built any more, and booting clang/ELF-format ones is a little different. Updating to the new boot monitor is recommended. Changes in this commit: . drop boot monitor -> allowing dropping ack support . facility to copy ELF boot files to /boot so that old boot monitor can still boot fairly easily, see UPDATING . no more ack-format libraries -> single-case libraries . some cleanup of OBJECT_FMT, COMPILER_TYPE, etc cases . drop several ack toolchain commands, but not all support commands (e.g. aal is gone but acksize is not yet). . a few libc files moved to netbsd libc dir . new /bin/date as minix date used code in libc/ . test compile fix . harmonize includes . /usr/lib is no longer special: without ack, /usr/lib plays no kind of special bootstrapping role any more and bootstrapping is done exclusively through packages, so releases depend even less on the state of the machine making them now. . rename nbsd_lib* to lib* . reduce mtree
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.\" $NetBSD: getpass.3,v 1.13 2010/05/06 11:09:39 jruoho Exp $
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.\" @(#)getpass.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd May 6, 2010
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.Dt GETPASS 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm getpass
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.Nd get a password
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In pwd.h
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft char *
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.Fn getpass "const char *prompt"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn getpass
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function displays a prompt to, and reads in a password from,
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.Pa /dev/tty .
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If this file is not accessible,
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.Fn getpass
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displays the prompt on the standard error output and reads from the standard
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input.
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.Pp
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The password may be up to _PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128)
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characters in length.
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Any additional
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characters and the terminating newline character are discarded.
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.Pp
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.Fn getpass
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turns off character echoing while reading the password.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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.Fn getpass
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returns a pointer to the null terminated password.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /dev/tty -compact
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.It Pa /dev/tty
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr crypt 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn getpass
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function appeared in
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.St -susv2 ,
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but it was already marked as legacy.
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The function was removed in the
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.St -p1003.1-2001
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standard.
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Fn getpass
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function appeared in
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.At v7 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The
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.Fn getpass
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function leaves its result in an internal static object and returns
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a pointer to that object.
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Subsequent calls to
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.Fn getpass
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will modify the same object.
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.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
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The calling process should zero the password as soon as possible to
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avoid leaving the cleartext password visible in the process's address
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space.
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