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Re: [LUG] moveable VM

 

On 08/07/14 17:50, Tom wrote:
> Just (shock horror) about to buy (license for a year) some software that
> (for licensing needs) wants my machine name and mac address. I'm
> guessing I could probably move it around to different machines on a vm
> with the above settings?
> Tom te tom te tom
> 


Not even that:

sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:yy:zz:11:22:33

will change your MAC on a linux box to whatever you want it to be. It's
similarly easy to change/spoof your MAC on OSX or Windows as well.
Obviously changing the hostname is even easier on any platform.

Regards

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