Thursday, October 15, 2015
I think my long October nightmare is finally over
My friend, Brian, concerned for my sanity, did some searching and sent me this:
- From
- Brian Yoder <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
- To
- Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>
- Subject
- El Capitan: Rootless "feature"
- Date
- Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:23:33 -0400
From: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/193368/what-is-the-rootless-feature-in-el-capitan-really
When you upgrade to El Capitan, it moves any "unauthorized" files from restricted areas to
/Library/SystemMigration/History/Migration-(someUUID)/QuarantineRoot/.
Really?
[spc]marvin:~>ll /Library/SystemMigration/History/Migration-0C65E56F-4185-42B0-BBE8-5537E4FDEE38/QuarantineRoot/usr/bin/ total 92472 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 60212 Dec 6 2005 bbdiff -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 86416 Dec 6 2005 bbedit -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 21226488 Feb 4 2005 emacs (from old Mac) -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 21226488 Feb 4 2005 emacs-21.2.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1511312 Dec 21 2010 pkgbuild -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1605200 Dec 21 2010 productbuild -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1440848 Dec 21 2010 productsign -rwxr-xr-x 1 wlofie staff 1195132 May 14 2010 synergyc -rwxr-xr-x 1 wlofie staff 1751764 May 14 2010 synergys -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3561 Jul 12 2007 zegrep (from old Mac) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3561 Jul 12 2007 zfgrep (from old Mac) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 103 Jul 12 2007 zless (from old Mac) [spc]marvin:~>
Oh.
There are my missing executables!
In /usr/bin!
And … owned by wlofie?
How did—
Nevermind!
I found them!
I had to copy them out of that directory to $HOME/bin so they won't get blown away again.
Then I had to tweak “System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Privacy” to allow Terminal and “sshd-keygen-wrapper” to have control over my computer,
then I can run synergys in the foreground,
and it works!
If I let synergys run in the background
(as it does by default)
then El Presidente de Por Vida prevents it from doing anything useful.
But I got it to work!
So now I'm back to where I was on October 1st!
Woot!
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