Disable system integrity protection mac os

About System Integrity Protection on your Mac

OS X El Capitan and later includes security technology that helps protect your Mac from malicious software.

System Integrity Protection is a security technology in OS X El Capitan and later that’s designed to help prevent potentially malicious software from modifying protected files and folders on your Mac. System Integrity Protection restricts the root user account and limits the actions that the root user can perform on protected parts of the Mac operating system.

Before System Integrity Protection, the root user had no permission restrictions, so it could access any system folder or app on your Mac. Software obtained root-level access when you entered your administrator name and password to install the software. That allowed the software to modify or overwrite any system file or app.

System Integrity Protection includes protection for these parts of the system:

• /System
• /usr
• /bin
• /sbin
• /var
• Apps that are pre-installed with OS X

Paths and apps that third-party apps and installers can continue to write to include:

System Integrity Protection is designed to allow modification of these protected parts only by processes that are signed by Apple and have special entitlements to write to system files, such as Apple software updates and Apple installers. Apps that you download from the Mac App Store already work with System Integrity Protection. Other third-party software, if it conflicts with System Integrity Protection, might be set aside when you upgrade to OS X El Capitan or later.

System Integrity Protection also helps prevent software from selecting a startup disk. To select a startup disk, choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Startup Disk. Or hold down the Option key while you restart, then choose from the list of startup disks.

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Что такое защита целостности системы (SIP) и как отключить эту функцию в macOS

Защита целостности системы или SIP (System Integrity Protection) — это одна из новых технологий, которую Apple внедрила в свою операционную систему для обеспечения безопасности. Впервые эта функция появилась в OS X El Capitan, ее главная задача уберечь пользователя от возможного заражения компьютера вредоносным ПО. По сути, если раньше администратор Mac имел доступ ко всей системе и программам, то сейчас SIP ограничивает его права суперпользователя root, он не может больше изменять системные файлы и папки, а также удалять предустановленные программы в macOS. Для него закрыт доступ к защищенным областям системы:

А это означает, что сторонние приложения не могут вмешиваться в работу системы, доступ имеют только процессы с подписью Apple. Зачем же тогда отключать эту функцию, раз она стоит на страже нашей же безопасности?

Например, Вы хотите понизить версию iTunes после очередного обновления или попросту удалить одну из программ Apple: Safari, iTunes, Photo. но все это предустановленные приложения и удалить их Вы не сможете. Но если отключить SIP, то такая возможность у вас появится.

К большому сожалению, с выходом macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple пересмотрела принципы безопасности своей операционной системы. Теперь пользователи не имеют прав на изменение папки «Система», доступно только чтение, отключение SIP ничего не меняет. Также, она переместила все свои предустановленные приложения в данную папку, кроме браузера Safari.

Как отключить SIP на Mac (macOS)

Отключить функцию из самой системы не получится, это можно сделать лишь из режима восстановления (иначе теряется весь смысл защиты).

1. Выключите/включите или перезагрузите Mac
2. При загрузке компьютера удерживайте зажатыми клавиши ⌘Cmd + R пока на дисплее не появится логотип Apple

В терминале введите команду csrutil disable и нажмите Enter

Перезагрузите Mac, кликните на значок  в левом верхнем углу и выберите соответствующий пункт или просто введите в терминале reboot и нажмите Enter

Проверить статус состояния защиты можно с помощью команды csrutil status

Иногда отключение SIP может привести к цикличной загрузке Mac в режим Recovery вместо обычного режима. Чтобы устранить эту проблему, при последующей перезагрузке удерживайте на клавиатуре клавишу ⌥Option (Alt) для загрузки в режим выбора дисков. Далее выберите диск с системой и кликните по нем мышкой или нажмите Enter

После загрузки Mac Вы сможете внести нужные для вас изменения, но помните, нужно быть предельно осторожным, чтобы не «наломать дров», так как после отключения защиты целостности системы все вносимые изменения в систему Вы делаете на свой страх и риск.

По внесению всех изменений рекомендуется обратно включить SIP, проделайте те же шаги — снова перезагрузитесь в «Режим восстановления», запустите терминал, только теперь введите команду:

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Disable system integrity protection mac os

В 2015 году компания Apple внедрила в OS X El Capitan (10.11) новый механизм защиты пользовательских данных от вредоносного ПО, получивший название System Integrity Protection (также известная как SIP или rootless).

Зачем отключать SIP

Например, Вы хотите понизить версию iTunes после очередного обновления или попросту удалить одну из программ Apple: Safari, iTunes, Photo. но все это предустановленные приложения и удалить их вы не сможете. Но если отключить SIP, то такая возможность у вас появится.

Так же, некоторые «пролеченные» приложения требуют отключения SIP для полноценной работы всех функций из-за особенностей реализации активации.

Инструкция (отключение SIP)

Отключить SIP из самой macOS невозможно, иначе теряется весь смысл защиты. Поэтому потребуется загрузиться в режим Восстановления (Recovery mode) и выполнить определенные команды в терминале.

1. Запустите Мак в режиме восстановления macOS.

Intel: Перезагрузите компьютер. Как только экран почернеет, нажмите и удерживайте клавиши Cmd + R до появления на экране логотипа Apple. По завершению загрузки вы попадёте в режим восстановления.

Apple Silicon: Удерживайте кнопку питания выключенного Мак (секунд 10). Затем перейдите в «Options». Возможно, потребуется пароль администратора.

2. Запустите Terminal из меню Utilities:

3. Выполните команду csrutil disable и нажмите Enter.

Добавим, что не каждое пропатченное приложение требует полного отключения SIP.
Команда csrutil enable —without fs отключит его только только для файловой системы, не затрагивая Kernel Extensions и не вмешиваясь в работу NVRAM.

4. Перезагрузите Mac.

Иногда отключение SIP может привести к цикличной загрузке Mac в режим Recovery вместо обычного режима. Чтобы устранить эту проблему, при последующей перезагрузке удерживайте на клавиатуре клавишу ⌥Option (Alt) для загрузки в режим выбора дисков. Далее выберите диск с системой и кликните по нем мышкой или нажмите Enter.

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Совсем не обязательно отключать SIP навсегда. Провернув необходимые махинации (запустив нужное приложение), вы можете перейти в Режим восстановления (повторно) и включить защиту Мак командой csrutil enable

Для проверки статуса SIP используйте команду csrutil status

Терминал отобразит: включена (enabled) или отключена (disabled).

Доступно в обычном режиме, и в режиме восстановления.

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How to Disable System Integrity Protection (rootless) in Mac OS X

Apple has enabled a new default security oriented featured called System Integrity Protection, often called rootless or SIP, in Mac OS from versions 10.11 onward. The SIP / rootless feature is aimed at preventing Mac OS X compromise by malicious code, whether intentionally or accidentally, and essentially what SIP does is lock down specific system level locations in the file system while simultaneously preventing certain processes from attaching to system-level processes.

While the System Integrity Protection security feature is effective and the vast majority of Mac users should leave rootless enabled, some advanced Mac users may find rootless to be overly protective. Thus, if you’re in the group of advanced Mac users who do not want SIP rootless enabled on their Mac OS X installation, we’ll show you how to turn this security feature off.

What Directories Does SIP Protect?

Before getting started on disabling SIP, you may be wondering which directories SIP / rootless protects from modification. Currently, System Integrity Protection locks down the following system level directories in Mac OS X:

/System
/sbin
/bin
/usr (with the exception of /usr/local subdirectory)
/Applications for apps that are preinstalled with Mac OS (Terminal, Safari, etc)

Accordingly, rootless may cause some apps, utilities, and scripts to not function at all, even with sudo privelege, root user enabled, or admin access.

Turning Off Rootless System Integrity Protection in Mac OS X

Again, the vast majority of Mac users should not disable rootless. Disabling rootless is aimed exclusively at advanced Mac users. Do so at your own risk, this is not specifically recommended.

1. Reboot the Mac and hold down Command + R keys simultaneously after you hear the startup chime, this will boot Mac OS X into Recovery Mode
2. When the “MacOS Utilities” / “OS X Utilities” screen appears, pull down the ‘Utilities’ menu at the top of the screen instead, and choose “Terminal”
3. Type the following command into the terminal then hit return:

csrutil disable; reboot

You can also issue the command by itself without the automatic reboot like so:

By the way, if you’re interested in disabling rootless, you may also want to disable Gatekeeper while you’re in the command line too.

If you plan on doing something else in the Terminal or Mac OS Utilities screen you may want to leave off the auto-reboot command at the end, and yes, in case you were wondering, this is the same recovery mode used to reinstall Mac OS X with Internet Recovery.

Once the Mac boots up again, System Integrity Protection will be disabled entirely in Mac OS X, thereby allowing full access to the protected folders outlined above.

Checking the Status of Rootless / System Integrity Protection in Mac OS X

If you want to know the status of rootless before rebooting or without rebooting the Mac into recovery mode, just issue the following command into the Terminal:

You’ll either see one of two messages, enabled indi:

$ csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: enabled.

$ csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled

If at any time you wish to change the status of rootless, another reboot into Recovery Mode is required.

How to Re-Enable Rootless System Integrity Protection in Mac OS X

Simply reboot the Mac again into Recovery Mode as directed above, but at the command line use the following syntax instead:

Just as before, a reboot of the Mac is required for changes to take effect.

As previously stated, the vast majority of Mac users should leave rootless enabled and embrace System Integrity Protection, as most Mac OS X users have no business in the system level directories anyway. Adjusting this feature is really aimed at advanced Mac users, whether IT, sysadmins, network administrators, developers, tinkerers, security operations, and other related highly technical fields.

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Yes, Thank you for your information! So far yesterday 12/31/2018, I booted back into Sierra 10.12.6 from a Windows 10 drive restart. It was a hassle to get my main macOS to boot again. Taking forever to come back to a desktop. Not everything was working right including most of my drives in my 2010 5,1 cMP where not there. fearing the worst that my CalDigit USB3/eSATA card had gone bad. But I also notice BootRunner wasn’t working first, I am running an earlier 2.X version because it is more compatible (NOT SIP Compatible) for Maverick/Lion. After an hour of hassling I opened BootRunners Config App directly finding that something in the repair boot had switched on the SIP enable. Wow did not realize that CalDigit hardware was not SIP compatible all this time. Guessing this one of my many reasons not to use SIP.

Thank you for the clear explanation
i am sorry to say, i needed to do this to get a usb to serial device (rs232) to work

unless apple provides support for legacy devices, the security is worthless, imho

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Had to disable SIP to empty trash after deleting stalled time machine backup file from ext HD. The error message was driving me bonkers when trying to empty trash…
Re-enabled SIP after trash emptied and incomplete Time Machine backup file was gone… For ever!
Thanks for the tip!!

Thank you. I was having trouble deleting old time machine backups manually. After installing MacOS 10.12 I actually got to the point where I had a partially deleted backup stuck in the trash can unable to delete and unable to put back. This is the kind of half ass feature that bugs the everlasting heck out of me. Disabling it allowed me to keep time machine going but to be able to delete the old backups I needed to.

We aren’t recommending disabling System Integrity Protection for long-term application work arounds, but for our environment and until we migrate to a new client management system we needed to disable it and we didn’t want to touch every computer to boot into the Recovery Partition and disable SIP. So, we found a automated method that we implemented on our 800+ computers that can be done programmatically or remotely.

System Integrity Protection restricts file modifications to specific locations it conflicts with our our current management system. This is a great feature in OS X “El Capitan” that adds additional system protection, but in our environment it restricts area’s of the file system that we manage with radmind, which runs as a tripwire to catch any suspicious files and replace them. SIP breaks our current management system and we needed to deploy “El Capitan” for our computer rollout. We decided to temporarily turn SIP off on all of our computers until we migrate over completely to JAMF’s Casper Suite.

This post outlines the process of automatically disabling System Integrity Protection when upgrading to OS X El Capitan.

This worked perfect for me. Thanks so much.

Guys,
Spare time for s new boy.
I am unable to update Java and after deselecting Yahoo home page – Next nothing happens.
Might be due to new iMac, new Apple update, TBH unsure.

If I disable SIP and go ahead with Java instal and update etc. Is it a case of enabling again?
Any further updates and follow the same process?
I seem to feel this may not be the way forward on getting Java, so asking for help … please.

Dear all,
I’d like to temporarily disable SIP to let winclone restore a system image of my bootcamp partition. However, it seems that I’m not able to properly disable SIP.
I indeed reboot in the recovery mode and run the command “csrutil disable”.
I get the message that the SIP has been disabled and I need to reboot the machine for the changes to take effect.
I then reboot the machine normally but the SIP is not disabled. Winclone does not let me recover my system image and if run in terminal the command “csrutil status” it says that SIP is enabled.
Any idea how to solve this?

use sudo as a prefix

“sudo csrutil disable”

You may have FileVault enabled on the drive too, which would prevent a system image from being created.

Hi,
thanks for your reply. I don’t have FileVault on.
Should i run the “sudo csrutil disable” when i am the recovery mode?
I’m not fully sure to get the logic of your suggestion, i have already created a system image of my bootcamp but i cannot restore it on a new drive because SIP is preventing it.

Yes using “sudo csrutil disable” from single user mode or recovery mode will disable SIP. The sudo prefix allows admin access.

But I am puzzled by your dilemma, are you trying to restore a Mac drive from an image of another drive? That would wipe the initial drive clean and put the image on it instead, you could do that by formatting the target drive first and you won’t need to mess with SIP at all. ALso if it is Time Machine backup image, you can just restore it with Recovery mode directly.

Hi,
I tried what you suggested but it didn’t work.
The “sudo csrutil disable” command is not recognized in terminal in recovery mode.
I know that the “csrutil disable” command works because I get the message that the SIP is disabled and that the system requires a restart for changes to take effect. My problem is that after restart the changes are lost and the SIP is again enabled.
I want to upgrade my hard drive to SSD and transfer also my Win7 Bootcamp. By looking on the net I gathered that the easiest solution is using winclone. With this i can create a system image of the bootcamp but need to disable SIP to be able to copy it to the drive.

I am not sure that disabling SIP is going to help your install, and you shouldn’t need to alter System Integrity Protection to use Boot Camp or install Windows. I think you have a somewhat unique situation trying to clone Bootcamp partitions which I know from experience can be challenging, I’ve had to reinstall Windows in similar situations myself.

Stepping away from SIP and csrutil commands, I think you will have a better result by doing the following:

– Install the SSD as usual, and create and install Mac OS X on that drive (this will create Macintosh HD which could be a restored image, but you need to be sure you have the Recovery HD partition as well which comes with installing)

– After Mac OS X is done installing on SSD, then create a new partition for Windows 7 Bootcamp as usual

– Restore the Windows 7 bootcamp image to that new partition

That should work, but it’s possible you would need to just go through the process of reinstalling Windows 7 on the Boot Camp side too.

In other words, rather than messing with SIP, if you simply backup the Mac side, then separately backup the Windows side, and restore each separately, it should work. It’s not quite as simple as the image restore idea, but with a dual OS situation I think that may be the most reliable option.

This needs to be disabled in order to run legacy drivers for my M-Audio firewire interface. OSX seems to be enabling it again on reboot so each time I want to use my interface I have to disable it again. M-Audio have not updated their driver for many versions of OSX so until I can get a newer interface this is my only option and it also runs with limited features. Otherwise I wouldn’t switch it off but I can’t live without the audio interface for now.

Thank you for the fine instructions. I’m a real novice, but I managed to get rid of a lot of clutter – I hope without too many problems.
But I have two backups, just in case…

My recommendation for step 3:

csrutil disable && reboot

By using “&&” instead of “;” the reboot command will only be executed if csrutil doesn’t throw an error. With “;” both commands will be executed no matter what. I’ve never actually had csrutil throw an error when executed without flags, but if it did I’d certainly want to catch it before committing to a reboot.

How can I temporarily disable SIP on a mac installed on 2 SSDs in a RAID1 Mirror? Meaning I have no recovery to boot into (not compatible with RAID os drives)…can i boot off a usb installer and run the command and hope it sticks?

I just tried this, on a Mid 2009 Macbook running 10.11.4. I booted the Macbook from a USB stick that contains the El Capitan installer, and from the Installer’s Utilities menu, I selected Terminal, entered the ‘csrutil disable’ command, and it worked fine–SIP was still off after I restarted the Macbook from its internal hard drive. So apparently the setting is stored in NVRAM (which is something to remember if you reset the NVRAM later).

Wanna tinker with your system?

Why not just install parallels and run Gentoo and play and tinker with all the system files you like, for days on end and then compile and compile and compile for months nonstop?

Can’t do without macs?

Easy….install Gentoo Prefix on your mac…..it can compile, install and run the apps in the Gentoo repository on your mac.

And you get to tinker in that prefix directory all you want too…..it is like having two operating system running on your mac natively at the same time!

Hi! I have a problem, PT works fine but I can’t turn off my computer. Do you know what’s going on? How can I fix it?

Yes, those are worthless. The poster’s point, which I agree with as a multiple-OS user working in information security, is any app requiring this kind of privilege needs a real business justification, not look & feel garbage. You want running-lights and a wing, good for you. I want my stuff to work and I won’t run shoddy code written by lazy developers using workarounds to make something work, and likewise won’t run code written by good developers changing protected parts of my system. This is the same whether I’m running Windows, Linux or OS X.

Aside from that, a developer writing and testing their code on a system with SIP disabled leaves the real possibility that they write their software such that it won’t run with SIP, which will affect 99% of their customers. That’s their choice of course, and yours to disable it as well, but there’s immense safety (and freedom to mess with everything else) when you leave protection technology like this in place. Again, in Windows, Linux and OS X alike.

You loser, the reason these “workarounds” exist is because of the OS and the file system. Maybe if MacOS was not designed to be restrictive, one would not have to do this. SIP is called BS

I can’t seem to to get csrutil to work. I boot into Recovery mode with command R. I run /Volumes/Macintosh\ /HD/usr/bin/csrutil and it says operation not supported. I see the file but I cannot run it.

I have this very same issue. Jesus Apple.

I have problem with my m- audio in Cubase 2626 8 My sound does not start ! Only when I change the sample rate and soon to go again! It is impossible to work! I need urgent help my studio is stopped ! HELP ME

My Hackintosh Yosemite 10.10.5
Firewire PCI texas instruments
Core Q9550 2quad 2.83 8G DDR 2800 GTX 750ti 2048mb

This is about disabling SIP rootless protection in OS X El Capitan, it has nothing to do with Cubase or Yosemite or using “Hackintosh” hardware that is not supported by Apple.

Buy a Mac and ask Apple for help.

In related unrelated news, I can’t believe the price of homes nowadays!

Just wanted to say that I managed to get my old Firewire 1814 working again, running OS 10.11.3 (Beta). At first I was a little disappointed that I couldn’t get the 1814’s Mixer to work but I found out that I get the same controls in Audio/MIDI Setup so it’s all good. I’ll continue using my 1814 until it is no longer functioning (which I hope will not be anytime in the not too distant future). It sucks that M-Audio discontinued support so soon for their Firewire devices.. I’ll never get why they did that especially since the devices are still functioning correctly.

Just want to confirm that this is a positive fix with osx 10.11 and M-Audio/Ozonic and Native Instruments/Ableton Live … I am running a macbook Pro mid-2010 13″. Hope it works for you too! Wahoo! I thought I was completely screwed.

I am having a huge problem with Ableton Live 9 on the startup..it just works if I disable the SIP or do I have to do another setup?
I am fighting with El capitan

This work 100%
Thank you very much 🙂

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