LKBEN11604: How to check System Integrity Protection on macOS?


Symptom

You need to know if SIP is enabled or disabled.

Cause

System Integrity Protection is a security feature of macOS.

Solution

System Integrity Protection prevents execution of unauthorized code. It might be necessary to disable SIP temporarily for a developer who needs to install system extensions.

You can use the csrutil to do there tasks.

To check the status:

csrutil status

This should say something like:

System Integrity Protection status: enabled.

To disable you use:

csrutil disable

To enable SIP:

csrutil enable

Have fun.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

Latest update: 03/11/2022