On Wed 20 Jun 2018 at 00:31:19 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:25:07 +0100 Brian Potkin wrote: > > [...] > > A temporary workaround is to run: > > > > cupsctl Browsing=No > > > > to restore the CUPS default setting. > > > > How do you go on with that, Francesco? > > I can try, but I already have: > > $ grep Browsing /etc/cups/cupsd.conf > Browsing Off > > Isn't that enough to disable browsing ?!? > I have always thought it was... > Has something changed recently? > > Wait, I see that > > $ /usr/sbin/cupsctl > _debug_logging=0 > _remote_admin=0 > _remote_any=0 > _share_printers=0 > _user_cancel_any=0 > BrowseLocalProtocols=dnssd > DefaultAuthType=Basic > IdleExitTimeout=60 > JobPrivateAccess=default > JobPrivateValues=default > MaxLogSize=0 > PageLogFormat= > SubscriptionPrivateAccess=default > SubscriptionPrivateValues=default > WebInterface=No > > does not include any value for Browsing ...
My output is the same as this. > Does this mean that "Off" is not a valid value for Browsing and that > cupsd simply ignores invalid values?!? without complaining at all?!? "Browsing Off", "Browsing No" and "Browsing 0" are all equivalent. A value other than these (xxx, say) is interpreted as "Yes". Cheers, Brian.