[cups-devel] CUPS running on alternative port and alternative domain socket: Access via localhost restrictedMichael Sweet

msweet at apple.com
Thu Oct 13 06:36:53 PDT 2016


Till,

> On Oct 12, 2016, at 8:37 PM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> Could you modify the trick from localhost:631 being replaced by the
>> domain socket to localhost:<port on which current cupsd is running>
>> being replaced by the domain socket? This way CUPS would be completely
>> consistent.
> 
> Now I have looked deeper into it and it seems that this cannot get changed, as the libcups cannot know which domain socket belongs to which CUPS daemon if there is more than one CUPS daemon 9AFAIK one cannot send a request to CUPS via localhost:port and get back the path of the domain socket, or is this possible?).

There is currently no way to do this.  I'm not sure that I'd want to add a way, either...

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer




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