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by pfranz 4008 days ago
"wow" will appear as a link with a URL pointing to the file on your local disk /etc/passwd. In UNIX/Linux /etc/passwd is a plaintext file used to list users accounts. In the old days it would store their password, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passwd#Password_file

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ah... I didn't recognize it as markdown.