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Apr 15, 2020
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Not very often, but sometimes I still need to disable/enable SIP on macOS running on MacBook Pro M1.
Every time I have to do this is a nightmare. The steps I follow is shutdown the laptop, wait for 1-2 seconds after the screen goes completely blank and boot into Recovery by pressing the power button until I see Options on the screen. Then I enter my password and go into Terminal.
But "csrutil enable/disable" does not work. I get the message:

csrutil: The OS environment does not allow changing security configuration options.
Ensure that the system was booted into Recovery OS via the standard user action.

But I have booted into recovery from a shutdown state. What am I doing wrong?

And sometimes, after trying for several tens of times and spending an enormous amount of time on this, it works.
 
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