On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 09:29, Michael L Torrie wrote:How it's set up "out-of-box" is primarily a function of the package maintainer / distro. IIRC CUPS, if compiled from source, does have secure defaults. All of those "features" are configurable at runtime.
Glad you had success. Cups made a lot more sense to me once I realized how to add ppd files to cups to describe printers. The interesting thing about CUPS is that it has no built-in driver system. Instead it relies of foomatic, gimp-print, or any other filtering system. The PPD file then describes the way cups should interact with the printer and all the special options for it. It's very nice. Although I haven't made this work yet for me, apparently cups should be able to go out and search for other cups servers around it and gain access to those printers. That would make setting up network printing a snap. If anyone knows how to get that working, I'd be interested in hearing how.
The one thing that bugs me about CUPS is the (lack of) security right out of the box. Admin from anywhere over http is evil, so is letting anyone print to a printer without authentication--and they don't even have to scan to find you, CUPS announces the "service"!
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