Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> writes: > As others have said, you can reconfigure CUPS so that it doesn't listen > to the outside world. > > As they haven't said, yet, I consider this to be the better approach. > Rather than rely on something else (a firewall) to get in the way, > configure services to be more secure, in themselves. > > I can run without a firewall, at all, simply because I don't have things > listening to the world on my systems. I don't, because I'd rather have > two things looking after me, than just one. But it's mostly pointless.
Makes sense. In fact, after following the other advice in this thread nmap and "lsof -i" now tell me that the only thing listening on my computer is cups, and it is only listening to local connections. Thanks for your help. Jarmo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
