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How to disable System Integrity Protection on Mac OS X El Capitan.md

What is System Integrity Protection?

System Integrity Protection prevents write in certain system directories, as example /usr.

How to disable?

To disable System Integrity Protection, you must boot to Recovery OS and run the csrutil command from the Terminal.

  1. Boot to Recovery OS by restarting your machine and holding down the Command and R keys at startup.
  2. Launch Terminal from the Utilities menu.
  3. Enter the following command:
    $csrutil disable
  1. After disabling System Integrity Protection on a machine, a reboot is required.
    $reboot
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