On 16 Nov 2018, at 18:20, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Let me guess: sign off (losing all my sessions) and sign on again as
"root" (which I've had to do to restore files outside my home
directory with Time Machine)? Install my shim, sign on again as
myself, see what's wrong, sign on again as "root" to undo what I did
to debug a problem, then sign on again, repeating as necessary?
WORSE.
Rather than just logging in as root, (which you COULD do in a shell,
after all...) you have to reboot into single-user or "Recovery Mode" to
switch it on and off with the 'csrutil' tool.
Why not just let me modify the root file system, and take the
responsibility for it?
It's not about you. It's about rootkits.
Sometimes I think that Apple goes too far in protecting users from
themselves...
Given the prevalence of rootkits as a dominant form of malware in the
modern world, it isn't really Apple just protecting us from ourselves,
it is protecting us from a broad range of possible attacks.
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