On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:59, Michael L Torrie wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:26, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > > I dont' know much about jetdirect. LPR may allow anyone to print, but it > > _doesn't_ advertise it and doesn't allow clear text admin over http. I > > liked CUPS, but decided to go with LPRng because I didn't feel like > > taking to time to lock down CUPS. > > Jetdirect doesn't advertise either, but has no capability for > authentication, other than host limiting, just like LPR. > > > > > Anyway, it was too much of a pain going between my work CUPS and home > > CUPS setup. Advertising was supposed to make it easier, but would > > occasionally break. As for admining, if you want web based configuration > > use Webmin and make yourself a certificate. Apache is much easier to > > lock down--and more appropriate in my opinion. > > CUPS can certainly be configured to use SSL. By default cups will only > bind to 127.0.0.1 for the admin interface, so encrypted passwords isn't > a big deal.
Might be thinking about swat here, not cups. Oh well. I'm sure cups can be secured if we put our minds to it. Printing seems to be kind of low-risk anyway, if you don't put your password across the wire (only access the web interface locally). > > > > > Maybe Rendevous and Zeroconf will improve things. I don't know. > > > > Just my $.02 -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
