Posted 2016­02­03

How to Disable System Integrity Protection in OS X
El Capitan
by NMac Ked  

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 OS X installation, we’ll show you how to
turn this security feature off.

To do so :

1. Restart your Mac.
2. Before OS X starts up, hold down Command­R and keep it held down until you see an Apple icon and a
progress bar. Release. This boots you into Recovery.
3. From the Utilities menu, select Terminal.
4. At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return: csrutil disable
5. Terminal should display a message that SIP was disabled.
6. From the  menu, select Restart.

Checking the Status of System Integrity Protection in OS X:

 
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just issue the following command into the Terminal:
csrutil status

You’ll either see one of two messages:

csrutil status System Integrity Protection status: enabled.

or

csrutil status System Integrity Protection status: disabled

How to Re­Enable System Integrity Protection in OS X:

To do so :

1. Restart your Mac.
2. Before OS X starts up, hold down Command­R and keep it held down until you see an Apple icon and a
progress bar. Release. This boots you into Recovery.
3. From the Utilities menu, select Terminal.
4. At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return: csrutil enable
5. Terminal should display a message that SIP was disabled.
6. From the  menu, select Restart.

Here is a video tutorial :

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 Rubia Lorena • 2 days ago
Hello! I have a MacBook "MacOs High Sierra 10.13.6", I need disable the SIP for run The Sims 3?
So, now I having a dowloading the game for uTorrent, I need disable SIP after the instalation, our
before the instalation?
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PR0WN3D • 8 days ago

What does System Integrity Protection do?
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Rubia Lorena > PR0WN3D • 2 days ago

The SIP, is a mechanism for protecting your dados of security for you Mac.
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litty ng • a month ago

When I boot the game it shows me a black screen before it loads into a white screen and then
nothing... Do I just wait?
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Maya • 5 months ago

After I have done all the actions I press the game and it does not open to me at all ..

What to do, please help !!!!

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Wafa Nammari • 8 months ago

Hello when i try to copy the file to the application file it keeps on saying he Finder can’t complete
the operation because some data in “The Sims 4” can’t be read or written.
(Error code -36)
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bvt > Wafa Nammari • 2 months ago

same, did you fix it??
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NicoG > Wafa Nammari • 4 months ago

me to
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Blue True • a year ago

unable to start: the sims 4 is already running.
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 Anmol Jatt • a year ago
how to disable sip
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NMac Admin > Anmol Jatt • a year ago

You can read the article above or simply watch the video!!!!
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Veli > NMac • 4 months ago

Hi admin, im getting the same error. my sip is disabled. what must i do?
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Juan • a year ago

Hello! i get a message saying "The application "The Sims 4.app" can't be opened." please help.
thank you
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NMac Admin > Juan • a year ago

Your gatekeeper is off??

Read this:

https://nmac.to/tutorial/ho...
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Hannalee Motta • a year ago

Hello! Please, someone help me!
I am trying to disable SIP, but my recovery isn't working. When I press command + r, appears a
error (Anonymous UUID: B1302492-E52F-9E99-6AE3-F42C08E2ABE0

Mon May 15 13:06:51 2017

*** Panic Report ***

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801f79654e): "Process 1 exec of /sbin/launchd failed, errno
5"@/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-3248.60.11/bsd/kern/kern_exec.c:4584
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff812b0fbde0 : 0xffffff801f2dab52
0xffffff812b0fbe60 : 0xffffff801f79654e
0xffffff812b0fbee0 : 0xffffff801f76df9b
0xffffff812b0fbf00 : 0xffffff801f7b3dd1
0xffffff812b0fbf40 : 0xffffff801f2d54cd
0xffffff812b0fbf80 : 0xffffff801f3cef3e
0xffffff812b0fbfa0 : 0xffffff801f3ec52f

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Boot args: rp=file:///com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg)
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 I tried too pressing option in the beggining, appears my recovery, then I click and appears the same
error.
There is a way to play (in my case the sims 4 vampires) without disable SIP? Or another way to
disable SIP without using recovery? I was playing the older version (V1.25) without problems.
Please Please Plese NMac help me!!!
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Nice > Hannalee Motta • 2 months ago

I'm not nmac.to but i can help. there are two ways i can reinmarinate this problem. try
updating your mac or trying it again. make sure you disabled the anti-virus.
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Ana Valente • 2 years ago

hi!
i tried to check the status in terminal and i get this message: "-bash: csrutil: command not found"
do you know what may be causing this?
thanks
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NMac Admin > Ana Valente • 2 years ago

What is you OSX version???
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Diane > NMac • a year ago

Mine also! My version is 10.10.4
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Weya Reign • 2 years ago

Hello , when I want to disabled the SIP, they said its impossible , I'M on MacOs Sierra 10. 12. 1
Help me please
Thank you
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Cezar > Weya Reign • a year ago

you dont need to disable sip becouse you have MAc OS sierra an on this version you dont
neded
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sergiogamboa2 • 2 years ago

Theres and error at point 4
At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return: csrutil enable

Should say disable as the last word

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 NMac Admin > sergiogamboa2 • 2 years ago
The point 4 that you are talking about is to turn on back the SIP!!

This article is made to teach people how to disable ( turn off ) the SIP "System Integrity
Protection"

So the first part where the point 4 is :

At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return: csrutil disable

That command is to turn off the SIP

And in case you want to enable back the SIP ( turn on ) move to the second part of this
article where the point 4 is:

At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return: csrutil enable

Hope it is clear and easy for you :)

Good Luck
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sergiogamboa2 > NMac • 2 years ago

I am so sorry yes it is true but the lack of a red background in the words: How to Re-
Enable System Integrity Protection in OS X confused me to thinking it was the first,
yet again thank so much for answering so quickly it's incredible how yo run this site!
is it just you?
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NMac Admin > sergiogamboa2 • 2 years ago

Don't worry :)

It is impossible for one person to handle all this!!! ( Server, Maintenance,

Monitoring, Posting, Uploading, and now the torrent server ........ etc ) This is
really hard and big job

Any way if you need further support, don't hesitate to ask

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sergiogamboa2 > NMac • 2 years ago

Yes I do need more support because my safari notifications won't appear
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NMac Admin > sergiogamboa2 • 2 years ago

Yes that is true, before there was a notification subscription but this script
causes a faults on our server specially on chrome browser so we decide to
turn it off :(

If you would like to get notified by new and updated apps you can follow us
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