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In situation where the operating system is not meant for network printing usage, oen should configure CUPS to listen only to localhost request. This section guides you on how to listen to localhost.
Block By Firewall
Block By Firewall
The easiest way to approach this is to set firewall to block all external network request to port 631 where CUPS uses.
Block By CUPS Configuration
Block By CUPS Configuration
The second approach is to set CUPS configuration independently. This is useful as a second layer protection. To do that, you need to add/modify the following settings in /etc/cups/cupd.conf to appear as follows:
...Listen 127.0.0.1:631...<Location />Order Deny,AllowDeny From AllAllow From 127.0.0.1</Location>Once done, restart the CUPS.service and you're good to go. That's all for configuring CUPS to listen only to localhost.
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