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So, I was trying to change my MAC adress. I found a solution to do this perminantly by googling etc. However I had to manualy add a line to the file (/etc/sysconfig/network/) ifcfg-eth0. Turns out I don’t have write access to this file. I’m logged in as root, so how can I not have access?

I tried a few other files and it turns out I don’t have access to any files? Is there something I can do to fix this?

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Actually you should not log in as root, bad idea.

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He probably isn’t anyway…

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Try opening a terminal, and typing


su -

to become root. You can type ‘whoami’ to check that it’s worked. Still no joy?

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Hiya,

It could be that permissions have been set to deny write access to this
file. Try (as root) ‘chmod u+w /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0’ then
attempt to edit the file.

–
kev.

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thx ( :

that helped

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Kevin Lucas wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> It could be that permissions have been set to deny write access to this
> file. Try (as root) ‘chmod u+w /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0’ then
> attempt to edit the file.
>
It’s also possible–although less likely–that the file has the immutable
attribute set. If you find that you still can’t edit the file after
changing the permissions try ‘chattr -i /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0’.

kev.