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How to Disable System Integrity

Protection in macOS
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 youʼre in the
group of advanced Mac users who do not want SIP rootless enabled on
their macOS installation, weʼll show you how to turn this security feature
off.

To do so :

B. Restart your Mac.


D. Before OS X starts up, hold down Command-R and keep it held
down until you see an Apple icon and a progress bar. Release. This
boots you into Recovery.
K. From the Utilities menu, select Terminal.
N. At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return:
csrutil disable
P. Terminal should display a message that SIP was disabled.
Q. From the  menu, select Restart.

Checking the Status of System Integrity Protection in macOS:


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:

csrutil status

Youʼll either see one of two messages:


csrutil status System Integrity Protection status: enabled.or
csrutil status System Integrity Protection status: disabled
To do so :
B. Restart your Mac.
D. Before OS X starts up, hold down Command-R and keep it held
down until you see an Apple icon and a progress bar. Release. This
boots you into Recovery.
K. From the Utilities menu, select Terminal.
N. At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return:
csrutil enable
P. Terminal should display a message that SIP was disabled.
Q. From the  menu, select Restart.

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