Is there any way to turn off SIP just for my home folder? I have a NAS backup app that complains about permissions when trying to backup to my NAS. When I completely disable SIP, it works. When right-clicking on the the Home folder, and going down to Sharing and Permissions, it won't let me make any changes there. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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Selectively Turning Off SIP?
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SIP should not affect your user folder, it only protects the system folders. Frankly, I would be wary about a backup app that doesn't work with SIP since it's a sign that this app might be requesting write permissions to a location that is has no business of writing to. Which NAS backup app is that? Is there a reason why you wouldn't just use Time Machine with your NAS? Big Sur has a new Time Machine implementation that uses filesystem snapshots instead of per-file copies, it's much faster and much more robust compared to earlier versions. Time Machine backups to my Synology only take couple of minutes now on average (over WiFi).
As already suggested, leave SIP on but grant your backup app the proper permissions in your System Preferences/Privacy and Security preference. The backup app's vendor probably has details on what permissions it needs.
If not nefarious it at least suggests that the developers aren't perhaps as knowledgable as they should be; or the app would either not have this problem, or at least notify the user about how to handle it. And you don't really want to deal with incompetence by removing the safeguards preventing them from screwing up too badly.
Yes, it's very likely that you just need to grant the app "Full Disk Access" in the Security and Privacy system preference.