Allowing CUPS to use http ports 80 and 443

[Steve Wilson]

On 01/29/2013 02:12 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 01:34:59PM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>> I'm migrating a CUPS print server from Ubuntu to RHEL6.  Previously I had
>>> CUPS configured to listen on port 80, 443 and 631.  Now SELinux is
>>> preventing CUPS from binding to ports 80 and 443.  What would be the
>>> recommended way to permit this in SELinux?
>> Another option would be change the labels on those ports to cups ports, but
>> this would break httpd if it was also looking to use those ports.
>> # semanage port -m -t cups_port_t -p tcp 80
> Given that replacing httpd with CUPS running their directly is the intended
> use of the machine, that actually seems better -- if httpd breaks, *good*,
> because it's not supposed to be there.
>

I think I'll go with this approach.  Thanks for all the help!

Steve