One More Admin - Erik Gomez

Managing Sierra's Loginwindow - Redux

An easier approach to managing the loginwindow.

Dec 28, 2016 - 3 minute read

Categories: Loginwindow macOS Sierra EFI Wallpaper Macadmin

A few months ago I wrote a post detailing how to manage the EFI lock screen, loginwindow and trigger the EFI cache. It was updated many times throughout the following days and inevitably caused some confusion.

System Integrity Protection (SIP) changes in macOS Sierra 10.12.2

Welcome changes to SIP in 10.12.2.

Dec 13, 2016 - 2 minute read

Categories: SIP System Integrity Protection macOS Sierra

With the release of macOS Sierra 10.12.2, Apple has made one welcome change to System Integrity Protection (SIP): you can now re-enable the feature without being booted into the Recovery partition!

The Untouchables Pt 2: Offline TouchBar activation with a purged disk

I've got FDRData in my ESP.

Nov 30, 2016 - 6 minute read

Categories: Activation macOS watchOS TouchBar MacBook Pro Sierra

Preface

While I have tried to document and piece together as much as possible here, some of the statements could be inaccurate. Until Apple posts more information about this process, take everything you read below with a grain of salt. If you choose to use the methodologies in production, I offer no warranties to the integrity of your system.