# How to change MAC address in Kali linux

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/how-to-change-mac-address-in-kali-linux/66926>\
**Category:** Tutorials & Methods\
**Tags:** tips-tricks, operating-system\
**Created:** [January 25, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-change-mac-address-in-kali-linux/66926 "2020-01-25T15:20:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![human\_a](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/human_a/32/20022_2.png) [@human\_a](https://onehack.st/u/human_a)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-change-mac-address-in-kali-linux/66926/1 "2020-01-25T15:20:49Z")

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**How to change MAC address in Kali linux**

1. Open Terminal
2. Type “ifconfig” without quotes  
3.Output consists eth0: and wlan0:  
4.In wlan0: you can see six hexadecimal pairs seperated by colon like 1a:2b:3c:4d:56:79 that is your MAC address before you chage.  
5.Type"ifconfig wlan0 down" again without quote and hit ENTER  
6.Last and final step is type “ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55” without quotes and make sure you start with 00 at the begining.

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**Author:** ![human\_a](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/human_a/32/20022_2.png) [@human\_a](https://onehack.st/u/human_a)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-change-mac-address-in-kali-linux/66926/2 "2020-01-25T15:45:53Z")

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You can check if your MAC is changed or not by running two commands.  
those are

1.ifconfig wlan0 up  
2.ifconfig

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**Author:** ![Sanay\_Jaju](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/sanay_jaju/32/30236_2.png) [@Sanay\_Jaju](https://onehack.st/u/Sanay_Jaju)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-change-mac-address-in-kali-linux/66926/3 "2020-02-09T10:13:01Z")

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