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Yet another move by apple to take away your control over your own machine. Some parts of the filesystem become off limits, even as root. But installers have acc
by meesterdude 11y ago
Yet another move by apple to take away your control over your own machine. Some parts of the filesystem become off limits, even as root. But installers have access! That's kinda nuts.
Obviously: most users wont care or notice. But when you combine this with other changes apple has made; it's clear where they're taking OS X: just as unfriendly to tinkering and exploration as their hardware.
- ryannielsen 11y ago> Some parts of the filesystem become off limits, even as root. But installers have access! Point of clarification: only Apple-signed installers can modify system paths. (c.f. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204899 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204899) All other installers are subject to SIP restrictions. And Apple only added a few simple steps for people eager to tinker: reboot and disable SIP. Or reboot into the installer for the other OS with which you prefer to tinker. Or create a VM with an experimental OS. Frankly, most of those steps existed before SIP. Most users shouldn't care or notice, and will benefit from increased protection. People who want to tinker will (and can and should!) tinker.