“restricted” folder/files in OS X El Capitan

You can also temporarily disable SIP the following way

  1. reboot
  2. as soon as you hear the “Mac sound” on the grey screen, press Cmd+R to enter Recovery mode
  3. Open Utilities->Terminal
  4. Run the command csrutil disable
  5. Reboot, you’ll land in the normal OS with SIP disabled
  6. do all the changes you’d like to do
  7. Reboot again
  8. as soon as you hear the “Mac sound” on the grey screen, press Cmd+R to enter Recovery mode
  9. Enable SIP with csrutil enable
  10. Reboot again
  11. done

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