Encryption

[Michael Sweet]

John A. Murdie wrote:
> Is there anywhere a more thorough description of CUPS and encryption than the small section in Chapter 5 of the CUPS Book (pp95-100)? I've looked for an article at this site, and have Googled a little - both unsuccessfully.

No, 1.2.x and beyond are largely self-configuring and require
encryption when authenticating over non-local addresses.

> I've just built an experimental CUPS 1.2.10 with OpenSSL 0.9.8e, with locally-generated certificates, and with:
> ...
> and the 443 cupsd dies silently, leaving no trace in the log file
 > - even though I have `LogLevel debug2' set.

You don't mention the OS, but if you can either run cupsd with the
"-f" (foreground) option inside a debugger or using a tracing utility,
we might be able to identify the problem.

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