Questions tagged [sip]
The System Integrity Protection (vulgo “rootless”) feature of OS X El Capitan protects critical filesystem areas from root user modification attempts.
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Launchd deamons won't access my home folder [duplicate]
Before switching from macOS 10.13 to macOS 15 I had some scripts in the /usr/local/etc/periodic/ folder for execution on daily/weekly basis. Some of them were writing to a file in my home folder.
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Mount a volume to `/mnt/foo`
At work my team has some scripts written for Linux which assume /mnt/foo exists, and I'd like to make them just work on my machine. But, / is a read-only file system, so I can't sudo mkdir /mnt . I ...
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How to remove a file from root directory in macOS?
On my Mac (macOS Sonoma 14.5), I have created a symlink file in the root directory (/) a long time ago. I just noticed that it must have been moved from Mac to Mac by the Migration Assistant, so that ...
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How to remove system extension on 14.4.1
$ systemextensionsctl list
1 extension(s)
--- com.apple.system_extension.network_extension
enabled active teamID bundleID (version) name [state]
* * DE8Y96K9QP com.cisco.anyconnect.macos....
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List of all entitlements on Apple systems
Is there a list of all entitlements, past and present, recognized on macOS and all other Apple operating systems? Or a list that covers at least half of them? I can't find one anywhere and the ...
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Is launchd confined by SIP or AMFI?
Given that signature checks for kernel extensions and executables are both carried out in userspace, this tells me that SIP and the sandbox aren't running when launchd is still the only process ...
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Can't remove systems folder from a faulty installation of Mac Catalina
I had Mojave installed on my late 2012 Mac mini, and attempted to install Catalina on it using the internet recovery mode. This install was made to the /Volumes/Local disc, and it failed miserably not ...
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How do I reload/reinstall a kernel extension driver, solving this error: Filesystem error: Invalid ownership (501:0) should be (0:0)?
For solving a problem with a drive, I had to uninstall/unload an external SSD Samsung driver.
Doing this, was reasonable easy: disable SIP in Recover (csrutil disable), rebooting, sudo kextunload /...,...
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Disabling SIP doesn't allow me to edit "protected" files
I wanted to make a small change to a file in a protected directory, so I went into recovery mode and entered csrutil disable. Now rebooted into normal macOS csrutil status returns System Integrity ...
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Installing old printer drivers (Canon Pixma MX850)
I would like to install drivers for MX850 on macOS Ventura.
As expected, upon running the installation package I get prompted with an "incompatibility with current OS" error, which is obvious since ...
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iMac will not boot into anything [duplicate]
As the title says, I cannot boot my iMac (late 2012) into anything. I’ve tried everything from booting into Safe Mode, Recovery Mode (and Internet Recovery Mode), doing a diagnostics test (which didn’...
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How to remove old PDF Services in read-only file system?
I am tidying up my print PDF services (long overdue). But I can't find a way to delete the two "Save to..." PDF services:
They were created by me with Automator probably under Catalina and ...
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I want to be able to quit Finder but can't edit Finder's Info.plist after disabling SIP
I'm trying to edit /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Info.plist on my MacOS Ventura (13.01) to be able to quit Finder (remove from tab switcher):
m@ms-MacBook-Pro ~ % csrutil status ...
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What are risks of disabling SIP for OpenCore Legacy Patcher: UNAUTHENTICATED_ROOT?
In order to keep MacOS updated on older Mac, OpenCore Legacy Patcher needs to lift next System Integrity Protections:
UNAUTHENTICATED_ROOT
UNRESTRICTED_FS
UNTRUSTED_KEXTS
What do they allow and what ...
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Backup Pictures folder using unison
I've been very successfully using unison to back up my personal data to a remote machine. The problem is that I cannot seem to be using it to back up my pictures as I always get the error
Error in ...