a warning message to *stream* and reading from ``sys.stdin`` and
issuing a :exc:`GetPassWarning`.
- Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows.
-
.. note::
If you call getpass from within IDLE, the input may be done in the
terminal you launched IDLE from rather than the idle window itself.
.. function:: getuser()
- Return the "login name" of the user. Availability: Unix, Windows.
+ Return the "login name" of the user.
This function checks the environment variables :envvar:`LOGNAME`,
:envvar:`USER`, :envvar:`LNAME` and :envvar:`USERNAME`, in order, and returns