Q: El Capitan: How to gain root access without disabling SIP
Can someone who knows what they are doing explain this to me? El Capitan is supposed to be "rootless" and is supposed to have SIP in place as an extra layer of security more or less. Is this correct? And in order to disable SIP one has to boot into recovery or something using terminal and a "utils" type of command. Something along those lines anyways.. is this correct as well? I haven't really taken the time to learn the exact steps because I don't intend to do it. But I was curious if the old method of enabling the root user was still intact and to my surprise it is. Which leaves me very confused as to what this whole thing is about in the first place.
In the Finder:
- System Preferences /
- Users & Groups /
- Login Options /
- Join... /
- Open Directory Utility... /
- Edit /
- Enable Root User /
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), 21.5 inch late 2012 model
Posted on Nov 17, 2015 10:24 PM
The root user exists as before. What System Integrity Protection does is to mark the protected items with a special flag, which when implemented by the kernel/firmware, only allows the OS itself to modify them.
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Posted on Nov 17, 2015 10:30 PM
