Security-related question about a possible exposed credential

[Emma-NYL]

Hello,

My name is Emma, I am conducting an academic study on possible credential exposure in public GitHub repositories.

While analyzing this repository, I found a string that may represent a credential. I'm including the code snippet below containing possible leakage. To avoid exposing sensitive information publicly, I marked the sensitive information.

Could you please help clarify whether the detected string is:

1. a real credential, or
2. a placeholder / example value?

Thank you for your time.

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Code snippet (sensitive values masked):

    public static String GetUser() throws Exception
    {
        File file = new File("../config/Admin.cfg");
        FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file);
        BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
        String line;
        String pwd = " ";
        while ((line=bufferedReader.readLine())!=null)
        {
            if (line.indexOf("User: ")!=-1){
                pwd = line.substring(line.indexOf("User: ")+"User: ".length(),line.indexOf(";"));
            }
        }

Thank you in advance for your time - I really appreciate it!

Sincerely,
Emma