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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Destroying arguments
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Date: Tue, 26-May-87 18:28:41 EDT
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In article <19590@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>If I wanted to pass a password safely to a program, I'd have the
>program ask me for the password and I'd type it in!

There's even a library routine, getpass(), to make this easy to do.