If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

Re:If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the p... by thaumasiotes on Thursday October 05, 2017 @09:32PM (#15413837)

The ssh man page is truly awful. I managed to read through it multiple times without finding the functionality I wanted, even devoting special attention to a section that turned out, later, to be purportedly "documenting" exactly that functionality.

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Re:If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the p... by TheKarateKid on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:21PM (#15414005)

This is why I usually only use man pages to reference a command-line option or as a quick reference. If you're new to a tool, a quick web search finds a much more informative tutorial which saves you time, despite being more verbose.

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Re:If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the p... by crispinb on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:40PM (#15414072)

Quite. And surely this is how pretty much everyone gets started with things like git?

Conversely, novice use of even complex GUI apps rarely requires looking up a tutorial first, because you generally can just click or tap around and at least figure out minimally how to use it.

Inexpert users (ie. nearly everyone) stop there. Obviously further reading is needed to make more extensive and/or efficient use of any tool. But at that point in my opinion we're beyond the reasonable boundaries of 'discoverability'

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