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Maybe the report was overblown, but I found it amusing that CUPS related facilities is shipped and activated by default in a lot of Linux distros (including Gno
by nirui 2y ago
Maybe the report was overblown, but I found it amusing that CUPS related facilities is shipped and activated by default in a lot of Linux distros (including Gnome Fedora in my case). I've never printed anything on this computer and yet there is this `cupsd` process running as root and listening TCP port 631 on local interface.
OK, sure, the program itself maybe safe (enough to run with root while listening a local port that everybody uses this computer can access), but is it really THAT evil if you don't run it 24/7 and instead only enable it when the user is actively using it?