Re: How to activate MAC address randomization?

[poma <pomidorabelisima gmail com>]

On 13.05.2016 00:16, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 16:09 -0400, Chris Laprise wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed NetworkManager 1.2 in fedora 23 in the hopes that I
> > can 
> > get mac randomization working. Only problem is there's no sign of a 
> > setting for this in nmcli or the applet. I found a reference to a 
> > setting on the NetworkManager.conf manpage which states:
> >
> >         wifi.mac-address-randomization
> >             If left unspecified, MAC address randomization is
> > disabled.
>
> wpa_supplicant only gained the necessary functionality that
> NetworkManager looks for back in late October 2015.  It was committed
> after wpa_supplicant 2.5 but it appears there hasn't been a release
> since then.  But once that happens, or if you build supplicant version
> from git, NM will begin to use that capability if you've enable it in
> the NM configuration.
>
> http://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=e50c50d5a090a6a52af6d92ee3a3c9cc37743747
>
> Dan

dbus: Expose interface globals via D-Bus properties - 2.5 backport
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336495

Professor, your patch your move ;)