Ubuntu
system-config-printer package

  1. Bug #137581
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ubuntu4fun (k2osuchowski) wrote : [Gusty] Printer shared by default (Security)

Binary package hint: cupsys

I' m using Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon Tribe 5 with all the updates installed and have a laser printer Brother HL 2030.

There is a new printing system in Gusty Tribe 5 (System-Config-Printer 0.7.73 from Red Hat). The new printing system right autodetected my Brother printer just after I plugged the USB, but after making printer configuration I noticed that all the printers added to the system are automatically shared by default.

Why all added printers are shared by default?

Is it safe and reasonable for single desktop users?
 I don't want to share my printer in any network.