rootless status in the diskUtility always on

[jeyf]

El Capitan's new Disk Utility the Info screen has field "System Integrity Protection Enabled" = on/off

never seen the on/off stats change
as there are a few methods to supposedly disable rootless

i would not advise this but
there is an app to change the Sys Integrity protect on/off
http://1i0ny.de/apps/rootlesstoggler/



is there a process that is associated with rootless that one can check???

 

[Apple_Robert]

You can turn rootless on and off by booting into Command +R > Utilities menu > System protection. No need for an app. Disk utility not properly recognizing the current status of rootless has been an ongoing issue. Best to report it to Apple and turn rootless on and off the proper way.

 

[Fangio]

[...] is there a process that is associated with rootless that one can check?

Open Terminal, type this and hit enter

csrutil status

to find out if SIP is enabled or not.

 

[Erdbeertorte]

You can turn rootless on and off by booting into Command +R > Utilities menu > System protection. No need for an app. Disk utility not properly recognizing the current status of rootless has been an ongoing issue. Best to report it to Apple and turn rootless on and off the proper way.

That does not work for me, also the command in the terminal to turn it off. After the restart rootless is always still enabled.

I tried both with every version from DP1 to DP6 and on at least three different Macs and from external drives.

 

[Erdbeertorte]

i would not advise this but
there is an app to change the Sys Integrity protect on/off
http://1i0ny.de/apps/rootlesstoggler/

Just tried it and it's still enabled.

Has anyone really succeeded to disable that crap?


I put my user account into the same groups where the root account is to prevent bugs in apps caused by rootless. But I am not sure if that helps, because I don't know if rootless is the problem for some apps that don't work properly.

 

[KALLT]

Just tried it and it's still enabled.

Has anyone really succeeded to disable that crap?

That tool won’t work. There is no way for any process to disable System Integrity Protection within the system. It must be done from the outside with the recovery system, follow the instructions of BasicGreatGuy (above). You only have to do this once.

I put my user account into the same groups where the root account is to prevent bugs in apps caused by rootless. But I am not sure if that helps, because I don't know if rootless is the problem for some apps that don't work properly.

I hope you know what you are doing. What System Integrity Protection does is to take privileges away from the root user and the sudo command. What you are doing is pointless, because not even root can do these things anymore.