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It seems i can't edit the plist file from LaunchAgents—even if I sudo, I'm prevented from any deletion/alteration. Do I have to necessarily disable SIP to do this?

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Did you try it & see what happens? – Tetsujin Jan 13 at 10:50
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Disable the LaunchAgent (not LaunchDaemons) and reboot your machine (without sudo):

$ launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed.plist

In case you want to enable it again at one point:

$ launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed.plist
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it says: /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed.plist: Could not find specified service I'm on 10.11.2; thanks for the suggestion! – jrgd Jan 13 at 12:25
    
I just tried it on my machine and it worked fine. Same OS (10.11.2). Did you copy and paste the command from my answer? Edit: make sure to not use sudo – frdmn Jan 13 at 12:26
    
yep I did; check also inside the directory and the plist file is there… did you remove SIP/rootless by any chance in the past? – jrgd Jan 13 at 12:28
    
No, I haven't: paste.frd.mn/loyon - Do you see the service in launchctl list? – frdmn Jan 13 at 12:32
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You're very welcome! – frdmn Jan 13 at 12:40
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According to this thread you can also do something like:

defaults write com.apple.gamed Disabled -bool true
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what about sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/Launch\ Daemons/com.apple.gamed.plist ?

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/System/Library/Launch Daemons/com.apple.gamed.plist: No such file or directory --- I'm on 10.11.2 (thanks for the suggestion) – jrgd Jan 13 at 11:24
    
my bad, it's a LaunchAgent : sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/Launch\ Agents/com.apple.gamed.plist – PEM8000 Jan 13 at 12:25
    
thanks; the directory is LaunchAgents on my machine; upon using the right path i got a "Could not find specified service" that makes me sad – jrgd Jan 13 at 12:31
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You have to first enter csrutil disable in Terminal when in Recovery Mode, then restart make changes, restart again in Recovery Mode and do csrutil enable, restart.

But I do not know which processes when modified will compromise boot in El Capitan

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This enables root login. What does it have to do with gamed? – Dmitry Dulepov Jun 23 at 5:05
    
This is a really really bad idea from a security standpoint, and it doesn't address the question. – ruief Sep 11 at 5:52

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