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by ransackdev 1024 days ago
~You can have a root user with SIP enabled. SIP protects core OS files from being modified while it’s enabled. This prevents processes, even root processes, from swapping out core libs with modified ones, installing root kits, back doors, etc.~

I misspoke

> System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS protects the entire system by preventing the execution of unauthorized code. The system automatically authorizes apps that the user downloads from the App Store. The system also authorizes apps that a developer notarizes and distributes directly to users. The system prevents the launching of all other apps by default.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/disabling...

I was thinking of this https://eclecticlight.co/2020/06/25/big-surs-signed-system-v...