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soggeee

New Member

Registered: 2009-04-09

Posts: 4

macchanger tutorial doesn't work

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Anony … CAddresses

Any ideas why networkmanager neglects to execute macchanger to change the address? Networkmanager works fine, and so does macchanger - but putting
# Radomize the mac address for the given interface
/usr/bin/macchanger -e $IFACE

in

/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/macchanger

Does nothing.

DonnieP

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From: Nashville, TN USA

Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 19

Re: macchanger tutorial doesn't work

/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/macchanger
Does nothing.

Forgive a stupid question, but did you make it executable?

soggeee

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Registered: 2009-04-09

Posts: 4

Re: macchanger tutorial doesn't work

Not a stupid question. Chmod 777 a+x on /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/macchanger - but yes, it doesn't execute or anything...

But I guess that is ubuntu tutorials for you... don't say how anything works just say "do this." What is making network manager read a file called macchanger, etc...

DonnieP

Member

From: Nashville, TN USA

Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 19

Re: macchanger tutorial doesn't work

Looks like there's actually a bug filed about this issue:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1084308

soggeee

New Member

Registered: 2009-04-09

Posts: 4

Re: macchanger tutorial doesn't work

Well since that doesn't work - any ideas on a better way to apply macchanger to an interface before connecting?

Thanks.