Configure CUPS to Use SSL/TLS

When CUPS is configured to be a network server, you need to be very careful about the security of its HTTP communications. Hence, one needs to set CUPS to use SSL/TLS. This section guides you on how to configure SSL/TLS.

Generate SLL/TLS Certificate

You need to generate the SSL/TLS certificate and place it inside the operating system.

Configure CUPS to use SSL/TLS Certificate

The next thing to do is to configure CUPS to use the SSL certificate in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. One can add the following:

ServerCertificate /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt
ServerKey /etc/ssl/private/server.key

That's all for enabling SSL/TLS for CUPS.