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  • [SOLVED] Re: macchanger - will not change MAC at boot

    From Hans@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 19 15:10:01 2025
    Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2025, 14:38:08 CET schrieb Greg:
    On 2025-03-19, Hans <[email protected]> wrote:
    Hi Geert,

    the desired goal is, that my original MAC will never appear after boot. As dpkg-reconfigure macchanger claims this to do, in real it does not.

    Seems we've been through this before in 2022 (sorry that it's Google Groups which I thought was defunct but anyway):

    https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.user/c/Bnt3Mchth5E?pli=1

    Yes, you are correct. The internet does not forget anything, doesn't it? I knew, I offended this issue already somewhere, but over the time I forgot it.

    Ok, I see, nothing has changed yet, so I mark it as solved (although it isnt't) so that this discussion is officially closed (and no one need to waste thoughts of it any more).

    Thank you all for your feedback, kindness and forbearance!

    Best regards

    Hans

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  • From Stefan Monnier@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 19 16:30:02 2025
    the desired goal is, that my original MAC will never appear after boot. As >> > dpkg-reconfigure macchanger claims this to do, in real it does not.
    Seems we've been through this before in 2022 (sorry that it's Google Groups >> which I thought was defunct but anyway):
    https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.user/c/Bnt3Mchth5E?pli=1
    Yes, you are correct. The internet does not forget anything, doesn't it? I knew, I offended this issue already somewhere, but over the time I forgot it.

    Have you reported the bug?
    If not, then it's no wonder that it wasn't fixed.


    Stefan

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  • From Hans@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 19 16:40:01 2025
    Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2025, 16:24:15 CET schrieb Stefan Monnier:
    the desired goal is, that my original MAC will never appear after boot. >> > As
    dpkg-reconfigure macchanger claims this to do, in real it does not.

    Seems we've been through this before in 2022 (sorry that it's Google
    Groups
    which I thought was defunct but anyway):
    https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.user/c/Bnt3Mchth5E?pli=1

    Yes, you are correct. The internet does not forget anything, doesn't it? I knew, I offended this issue already somewhere, but over the time I forgot it.
    Have you reported the bug?
    If not, then it's no wonder that it wasn't fixed.


    Stefan

    Hi Stefan,

    yes, in 2022, but the last change by the author was 12 years ago (according to github).

    However, I discovered, that TAILS already got it running in theire system. So my concerns related to TAILS are gone.

    And as far as I noticed, other users seem to not need this feature. Thus I believe and for myself, we can safely close this issue.

    Best regards

    Hans

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  • From Andy Smith@21:1/5 to Hans on Wed Mar 19 17:00:01 2025
    Hi,

    On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 04:34:48PM +0100, Hans wrote:
    Am Mittwoch, 19. M�rz 2025, 16:24:15 CET schrieb Stefan Monnier:
    Seems we've been through this before in 2022 (sorry that it's
    Google Groups which I thought was defunct but anyway):
    https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.user/c/Bnt3Mchth5E?pli=1

    Yes, you are correct. The internet does not forget anything, doesn't it? I
    knew, I offended this issue already somewhere, but over the time I forgot it.
    Have you reported the bug?
    If not, then it's no wonder that it wasn't fixed.

    yes, in 2022, but the last change by the author was 12 years ago (according to
    github).

    What actually *was*/is the bug? Reading the old thread I gather you
    were putting "=yes" in a variable that expected "=true", but that when
    done with dpkg-reconfigure it correctly puts in "=true" so it is unclear
    to me how "=yes" got in there.

    Anyway, as was the case in 2022 but even more so in 2025, it is probably
    time to rely on other software like NetworkManager or systemd-networkd
    for random MAC compared to macchanger which seems abandoned.

    Thanks,
    Andy

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