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V-277138

CAT II (Medium)

The macOS system must disable Printer Sharing.

Rule ID

SV-277138r1148866_rule

STIG

Apple macOS 26 (Tahoe) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

Printer Sharing must be disabled.

Check Content

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Printer Sharing with the following command:

/usr/sbin/cupsctl | /usr/bin/grep -c "_share_printers=0"

If the result is not "1", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the macOS system to disable Printer Sharing with the following commands:

/usr/sbin/cupsctl --no-share-printers
/usr/bin/lpstat -p | awk '{print $2}'| /usr/bin/xargs -I{} lpadmin -p {} -o printer-is-shared=false