[lug] printing problem

[Dean Brissinger]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Collins Richey [mailto:crichey at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 10:13 AM
> To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [lug] printing problem
> 
> On 5/29/05, Dean Brissinger <brissing at kaidok.com> wrote:
> > > From: Mark Sweitzer [mailto:Mark at MarksInfo.net]
> > Try using a ghostscript printer driver.  Most of them in CUPS will allow
> you
> > to translate the output before it goes to the printer.  The best way to
> get
> > CUPS going correctly is to use the CUPS gui.  http://localhost:631/
> >
> 
> I can't help with the problem, but I read an interesting comment on an
> Ubuntu list. The CUPS admin interface is inherently insecure, and it
> provides an excellent opening for evil doers to scarf up your clear
> text root password. Kubuntu recommends using the KDE print services
> instead (not much help if you don't run KDE <grin>). As a side note,
> Ubuntu unmodified doesn't even allow root except via sudo su -, and
> CUPS admin won't work since there is no usable root password.

The general solution to this is to open a web browser from the machine
running cups.  Or configure cups to use a more secure method of password
authentication.  I open it up to the lan but encrypt auth data using
features in Firefox.  I haven't used the kde tools but every CUPS tool I
have used has been lacking.