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I have created a macOS command line tool called “tcscertrequest” that submits requests to a Microsoft Certificate Authority from the macOS command line. Posted on Februby Timothy Perfitt - Certificates Initially, Google provided steps to fix a Mac with a damaged /private/var directory, but the company now recommends reinstalling macOS from macOS Recovery.Įven if Macs without SIP protection are somewhat unusual, this was still shoddy work on Google’s part, and the company should formally apologize for the trouble it has caused.Updates How the AD Certificate Profile got into macOS when I was at Apple Once alerted, Google stopped delivering the offending update while it readies a fix.

However, video professionals often disable SIP to use third-party video cards, and Macs running OS X 10.9 Mavericks or 10.10 Yosemite predate the introduction of SIP in 10.11 El Capitan and were also thus theoretically vulnerable.

Happily, most Google Chrome-using Mac users were unaffected, thanks to Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP), which safeguards /var. Google uses Keystone to update Google Chrome and other Google apps on the Mac, so it could have caused widespread problems. In short, an update to the Google Keystone update software inadvertently attempted to remove the /var symlink that points to the /private/var directory, which stores files necessary for macOS to boot. Rich Trouton has provided a cogent explanation of and solution to a problem that was breaking news in the MacAdmins Slack on 24 September 2019. Google Keystone Update Damages File System on SIP-Disabled Macs #1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.