Error Message “Operation not permitted” in macOS Terminal
If you have encountered an error message “Operation not permitted” in macOS Terminal.
Are you facing access restrictions to enter into the directory?
Or unable to execute some basic command on your mac-OS terminal?
When you execute l’s or other basic commands, it gives the error message as
How to handle “Error Message Operation not permitted” in MacOS Terminal
This is possible because the mac has System Integrity Protection — also known as “rootless”
There are some system directories, which are also protected and the OSx won’t allow to write or mount anything to those locations.
The list of protected directories is found by executing the command
cat /System/Library/Sandbox/rootless.conf
Now,
How to solve the error message “Operation not permitted” in macOS Terminal?
To identify the system integrity protection, we suggest you to execute the below command
csrutil status
To disable that, execute the below command
csrutil disable
But, you cant disable that from normal login, the OS needs to be on Recovery mode.
So, you have to log in to your machine while OS is in recovery mode.
To launch OS in recovery mode[Mac OS]
Restart + Command + R
Enter the password and that will give the recovery screen.
You would find 4 options under macOS Utility, Don’t worry about that, Just ignore/
On the top bar, click on Utilities and click on Terminal.
On the terminal execute
csrutil disable
Restart the machine
On the normal mode, now you would be able to execute any command on the Mac terminal.
Hence the issue a is Solved.
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