nfc-mfsetuid(1)

nfc-mfsetuid1

Mifare 1k special card uid setting and recovery tool

Usage

nfc-mfsetuid [UID]

Overview

nfc-mfsetuid is a MIFARE tool that allows setting of UID on special versions (Chinese clones) of Mifare 1K cards. It will also recover damaged cards that have had invalid data written to block 0 (e.g. wrong BCC). Currently only 4 Byte UID is supported. Specify an eight hex character UID or leave blank for the default '01234567'.

Options

-f Format. Wipe all data (set to 0xFF) and reset ACLs to defaults.

-q Quiet. Suppress output of commands and responses.

Licence

libnfc is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 3.
libnfc-utils and libnfc-examples are covered by the the BSD 2-Clause license.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 8–10
  2. 11–Arch

Bugs

Please report any bugs on the libnfc issue tracker at:
https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc/issues

Authors

Adam Laurie <[email protected]>

This manual page was written by Adam Laurie <[email protected]>. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).

From libnfc 1.8.0-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.