Cups Web Admin Interface (was: Dependence on Gnome's System Menu)

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Rocco!

Rocco Stanzione [2006-02-22 15:53 -0600]:
> If I run CUPS, I can visit http://localhost:631 and poke around a bit, but I 
> can't do anything useful.  Specifically, the Admin functions are deliberately 
> disabled.  A message at the top of the page lets me know this and points me 
> to a Gnome interface which, not being a Gnome user, I don't have.  It was 
> suggested that this was disabled due to a policy of having no running 
> servers.  Does such a policy really exist?

That's not quite correct; of course we do have running servers. The
policy is to have no open ports to the outside world by default.

> If so, does crippling the functionality of the CUPS web service
> satisfy this policy?

No, the disabling of the admin functionality was just a precautionary
means to disallow access to /etc/shadow for cups. The message says

  "/usr/share/doc/cupsys/README.Debian.gz describes the details and
  how to reenable it again."

and there you will find "sudo adduser cupsys shadow".

Martin

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