> On Jul 20, 2017, at 3:24 AM, Piet van Oostrum <pie...@vanoostrum.org> wrote:
> 
> Normally you should never touch anything in /usr/bin or /usr/lib. That is 
> Apple territory.

You can't any more.

$ touch /usr/bin/just-testing
touch: /usr/bin/just-testing: Operation not permitted
$ sudo touch /usr/bin/just-testing
Password:
touch: /usr/bin/just-testing: Operation not permitted

Since System Integrity Protection came out with El Capitan, unless you reboot 
into recovery mode and type some "void your warranty" commands into the 
terminal app on the recovery partition, it's simply no longer possible for 
3rd-party applications and installers to write files into /usr/bin.  Attempting 
to install over /usr/bin/python on any macOS released in the last 2 years will 
just fail.

-glyph
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