question about getpass

greg at uwvax.UUCP greg at uwvax.UUCP
Fri Jun 10 00:18:39 AEST 1983


In the documentatin of getpass(3) it says that the routine reads a password
from standard input if it connot open "/dev/tty."  How can one make
/dev/tty unopenable?  Thanks for any suggestions or solutions.
				- Greg Johnson
				  U. of Wisconsin - Madison



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