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I'm trying to set my mac address for my other computer on a newly installed Ubuntu with a brand new hard drive. While doing this I got “permission denied” from SIOCSIFFLAGS.

My question is how can I get to the root of Ubuntu to get total control of my machine?

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    Hi,welcome to askubuntu. Just for clarification you did start the command with sudo EG instead of ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 up for example it should be sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 up It would also be more helpful if you added the commands you have used to your question to receive better help.
    – damien
    Sep 15, 2012 at 7:03

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When you run a shell command to perform a task that requires system administrator permission, you need to put sudo in front of it. sudo stands for “do as super user”. You will be prompted for your password (if you run several commands in quick succession, you will only get a password prompt the first time), and you must be authorized to run command as administrator (which is the case for the initial user created during an Ubuntu installation).

sudo ifconfig eth0 hwaddr 01:23:45:67:89:ab

See the Ubuntu wiki for more information.

If adding sudo isn't enough, edit your question to be more precise. Copy-paste the command(s) that you ran and the error messages.

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