I'm surprised getpass(3) is marked as obsolete, it seems to be preferable to implementing the steps described for a unix-like system in the article yourself...

I'm surprised getpass(3) is marked as obsolete, it seems to be preferable to implementing the steps described for a unix-like system in the article yourself... Maybe it's because it only reads up to PASS_MAX bytes, although glibc does not suffer from this limitation...