It was somewhat hyperbolic, showing the first line of &#x2F;etc&#x2F;psswd. With a normal user account that doesn&#x27;t actually give you much, while giving the impresion that your password has been revealed (certainly those were my first thought upon reading the message). I imediately saw there was more going into the terminal than I expected (and was surprised) but it would have needed me to actually type a password to do much harm. (OK, some securtiy expert point can probably point out where I am wrong, but as a general rule....)