getpass

Reads a password.

Defined in header <conio.h>

Syntax

#include <conio.h>
char *getpass(const char *prompt);

Portability

Remarks

getpass reads a password from the system console, after prompting with the null-terminated string prompt and disabling the echo. A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string of up to eight characters (not counting the null-terminator).

Return value

The return value is a pointer to a static string, which is overwritten with each call.

See also

• getch

Example

#include <conio.h>

int mainO
{
   char *password;
   password = getpass ("Input a password:");
   cprintf("The password is:  %s\r\n", password);
   return 0;

Differences from modern implementations

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Modern references

• POSIX (search)
• Microsoft C runtime (search)

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Stable link: /3.1/conio.h/getpass/ · short form /3.1/getpass/