Patch did not work for me on High Sierra

[ghost]

Hi Farhan,

The patch has worked for me for many years however it i no longer working on High Sierra.

I notice it stopped working, downloaded 1.1. Disabled SIP. Rebooted. Ran 1.1. It said patched already - I rewatched for the hell of it. Rebooted. iTunes still launches using the play button.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Chris

See screenshot

[ghost]

Sorry here are the logs ..

com.thebitguru.Play-Button-iTunes-Patch 2016-11-09 12-00.log
com.thebitguru.Play-Button-iTunes-Patch 2018-04-18 12-38.log

[ghost]

Disabling the Play button (and other useful buttons) in Preferences/Keyboard/"Use F1 F2 etc as standard function keys" did work ..

[thebitguru]

Hi, @gigantaur, sorry, I have been quite busy lately. There is a known issue with High Sierra that I need to work on and this is likely because of it. I will try to get to this soon.

[ghost]

Thanks heaps for the reply. A fantastic contribution that you make in doing this - one many of us really appreciate. Do you think you will be able to avoid the need recovery mode to turn off the system protection - even a sudo command line script to start or finish would be better than the whole recovery mode .. Cheers Chris On 26 Apr 2018, at 4:36 am, Farhan Ahmad <notifications@github.com> wrote: Hi, @gigantaur, sorry, I have been quite busy lately. There is a known issue with High Sierra that I need to work on and this is likely because of it. I will try to get to this soon. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[rkcarter]

@gigantaur, I don’t think that will work. One of the points of System Integrity Protection is that a remote attacker can’t modify the system code, even if they acquire root. - Rick

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-- Rick Carter Ann Arbor, Michigan USA Rick.Carter@gmail.com

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[averms]

Until the patch is updated one can always run
sudo chmod -x /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes to completely turn off iTunes. Of course this doesn't work if you actually use iTunes 😏.

[AlbertoFdzM]

@aaether32323 that solution doesn't work for me:

sudo chmod -x /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
chmod: Unable to change file mode on /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes: Operation not permitted

[averms]

@AlbertoFdzM I forgot that you need to disable SIP for that to work