[cups.general] Q. Is https required for remote administration?

[Michael Sweet]

wtautz wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
>> wtautz wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> So it looks like gnutls is being used. I guess to get around the
>>> licensing issue
>>> the Debian doesn't like . So encryption is being used.
>>> ...
>>> I get the problem if I start with http://servername:443 I can't even
>>> connect.
>>> On the server I see a CLOSE_WAIT if I use lsof -i. This may be a local
>>> issue.
>>
>> First, make sure you have an /etc/cups/ssl directory; the GNU TLS
>> support includes automatic server certificate generation, so the
>> first connect will be a little slow.  You can look in the error_log
>> file for any encryption errors that show up...
>>
> Yes, I don't have the openssl package installed which contains /etc/ssl
> Looks like the Ubuntu package should have openssl as a dependency
> and they left it out.

Look for /etc/cups/ssl, not /etc/ssl.  /etc/cups/ssl should exist
and may contain a server.crt and server.key file.

> What should I be looking for in error_log. Doesn't seem to contain
> anything informative
> and I have LogLevel at debug2

Look for encrypt_client, "server key", and "self-signed certificate".

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