[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#829091: network-manager-gnome: cannot spoof MAC on wifi not seen/connected

[Fulano Diego Perez]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 1.2.2-2
Severity: normal


for a new WPA/WPA2 password protected AP, and knowing the SSID and
manually creating the connection prior to have ever connected to it,
network manager won't connect to it with a spoofed MAC

then if i delete the saved connection, newly connect to it via discovery
and supply the password, it connects

this prevents connecting to unseen WIFI without revealing your MAC

i realise there are other ways to sniff me out with beacons and so forth

there is a setting in dconf to disable alerting of new WIFI networks - i
dont know if this prevents outgoing beacons...








-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.10.8-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.20.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.22-11
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.34.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.48.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.20.6-1
ii  libmm-glib0                                  1.4.14-1
ii  libnm0                                       1.2.2-2
ii  libnma0                                      1.2.2-2
pn  libnotify4                                   <none>
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.40.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.40.1-1
pn  libsecret-1-0                                <none>
ii  network-manager                              1.2.2-2
ii  policykit-1-gnome [polkit-1-auth-agent]      0.105-3

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring                      3.18.3-1
ii  gnome-shell [notification-daemon]  3.18.1-1
ii  iso-codes                          3.68-1
pn  mobile-broadband-provider-info     <none>
ii  notification-daemon                3.20.0-1

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  <none>
ii  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      1.2.2-1
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         <none>

-- no debconf information