I plan on turning it off, I don't want someone else deciding what I can
and cannot do with my computers. Of course, each user must decide if
they want to do this, but for me it will definitely be disabled.
Original message:
I would be careful before turning this off. I believe that dropbox will
still work, but just in a different integration with the finder. These
solutions are designed to make the Macintosh more secure by only
allowing applications with a specific internal flag set to have access
to the essential parts of the Operating System. Apple knows that
Dropbox / One Drive / Google Docs are essential functions of the modern
computer user and will not block them entirely. What they are doing is
preventing programs from saying for example Hey I'll replace the open
dialogs available in all applications with a new one. So, it will be
that much more difficult for applications to take read and write to
every file and peripheral on the computer without permission from the kernel.
I underestand the default folder X application that power users use to
re-route certain files to a different spot in more hampered than dropbox.
Ifyou want details on this security option, there was a very
interesting talk given at WWDC which I think is available on Youtube on
the enhanced security of 10.11, and all of my opioons expressed above
are based on this tak.
Jonathan Cohn
On Sep 18, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote:
From what I have read, you boot in to recovery, go to utilities and
choose the security application, then you uncheck the system integrity
protection check box.
Original message:
Hi,
Can you give steps on how to disable this feature in recovery in general terms?
Thanks.
Eileen
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 17, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey everyone, I've been doing some reading on what will be coming in
version 10.11, el Capitan, it does appear as though Apple is getting
more restrictive with each release. In 10.10 they introduced kext
signing which only allows you to install kernel extentions that are
signed by Apple. Now, in 10.11, they are introducing what is called
system integrity protection. In a nutshell, what this does is prevent
any program from accessing or binding to running processes such as the
finder or dock. One program that apparently is affected by this is
dropbox, the finder integration will no longer work. Basically, it
requires all applications to be sandboxed, even those that are
installed from outside the app store. Even if a program requests
elevated permissions where you have to type in your password, that will
no longer matter, the program will no longer have this access.
Fortunately, there will be a way to disable this from the recovery, and
that will be one of the first things I do once I upgrade.
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