[cups.general] cups 1.3 and tls encryption

[Dave]

Hello,
    Thanks for your reply. I have a /etc/cups/ssl area, but no certs in it. 
I'd like for the admin stuff to require a password and be encrypted on 
login.
Thanks.
Dave.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael R Sweet" <msweet at apple.com>
To: "Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com>; "Mirror of cups.general Newsgroup" 
<cups at easysw.com>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [cups.general] cups 1.3 and tls encryption


> Dave wrote:
>> Hello,
>>     I've got cups 1.3 working as a network print server. I'd like to 
>> secure it, the admin functions, login, with tls, and md5 passwords. I can 
>> get the md5 with digest authentication, but i haven't found any howtos on 
>> tls and cups. Items that i did find were cups 1.1 and refer to 
>> directories that aren't in my cups install. If anyone has this working 
>> i'd like to hear from you.
>
> In general, if you have configured CUPS with SSL support, it will
> automatically create the server-side certificate and key as needed,
> and require encryption (via the DefaultEncryption directive in the
> cupsd.conf file) any time you are authenticating on a remote
> interface.  On anything other than Mac OS X, you'll find the auto-
> generated certificate and key in the /etc/cups/ssl directory (on
> Mac OS X the cert is part of the system keychain and is used by all
> of the services needing a common server cert...)
>
> If you authenticate on localhost, it doesn't bother doing encryption
> (although you can force it via the Encryption directive in each
> Location section, again in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf...)
>
> -- 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer