CUPS#

HTTPS error with CUPS remote administration#

You may want disable HTTPS in CUPS (if CUPS uses the default self-signed certificate) if you experience browsers throwing errors and denying browsing.

Warning

Do this only if you are in a safe network environment since plaintext credentials can be sniffed!

See also

  • CUPS/Printer sharing - ArchWiki [1]

  1. change the encryption level in the configuration file

    /etc/cups/cupsd.conf#
     1#
 2# Configuration file for the CUPS scheduler.  See "man cupsd.conf" for a
 3# complete description of this file.
 4#
 5
 6# Log general information in error_log - change "warn" to "debug"
 7# for troubleshooting...
 8LogLevel warn
 9PageLogFormat
10
11# [ ... ]
12
13DefaultEncryption IfRequested
14
15# [ ... ]

  2. restart CUPS

    systemctl restart cups

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