From 5f1456afb461360194e60a6cd5e7780553ffc331 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: msweet
Click on the Administration tab at -the top of this page. Click on the Add Printer button and follow the -prompts.
+Click on the Administration tab at the top of this page. Click on the Add Printer button and follow the prompts.
-When you are asked for a username and password, enter your login -username and password or the "root" username and password. On MacOS X, the login -username (or "short name") is typically your first and last name in -lowercase.+
When you are asked for a username and password, enter your login username and password or the "root" username and password. On OS X®, the login username (or "short name") is typically your first and last name in lowercase.
After the printer is added, CUPS will ask you to set the default printer options (paper size, output mode, etc.) for the printer. Make any changes as diff --git a/doc/help/security.html b/doc/help/security.html index 3bd564253..23455f4b4 100644 --- a/doc/help/security.html +++ b/doc/help/security.html @@ -38,18 +38,6 @@ authentication:
username and password information - this is the default on MacOS X and systems with GNU TLS or OpenSSL installed. -The current implementation does not authenticate the - entire message and uses the client's IP address for the - nonce value, making it possible to launch "man in the - middle" and replay attacks from the same client.
- -Recommendation: Enable encryption to hide the - username and password information.
Recommendation: None.
It might be possible to disable browsing if this - condition is detected by the CUPS software, however if - there are large numbers of printers available on the - network such an algorithm might think that an attack was - occurring when instead a valid update was being - received.
- -Recommendation: Block browse packets from - foreign or untrusted networks using a router or - firewall.
CUPS supports 128-bit SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 encryption of -network connections via the OpenSSL, GNU TLS, and CDSA encryption -libraries. In additional to the potential security issues posed -by the SSL and TLS protocols, CUPS currently has the following -additional issue:
- -Recommendation: Do not depend on encryption for - security when connecting to servers over the Internet or - untrusted WAN links.
CUPS supports 128-bit TLS encryption of network connections via the GNU TLS library, OS X Security framework, and Windows SSPI APIs. Secure deployment of TLS depends on proper certificate management and software maintenance.