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V-277138CAT II — Medium severitySV-277138r1148866_rule

The macOS system must disable Printer Sharing.

Rule version APPL-26-002240 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

Printer Sharing must be disabled.

Check

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

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-277138
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-277138r1148866_rule
Check ID
C-81293r1148864_chk
Fix ID
F-81198r1148865_fix