How to turn off SIP (System Integrity Protection) in OSX

For the sake of system stability and thus security, the configuration of some OSX features is disabled by default using System Integrity Protection (SIP). This can only be accessed and altered in System Recovery mode, thusly:

  1. Start or Restart your machine
  2. Immediately hold down Command-R to reboot into Recovery Mode
  3. From the top menu bar, select Utilities > Terminal
  4. In Terminal, type csrutil disable and press return/enter
  5. Click the Apple symbol in the Menu bar > Restart

To reverse this, do all the steps identically, except change step 4 to csrutil enable

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