Let’s Encrypt in the spotlight

Re:Let’s Encrypt in the spotlight by thinkMOAR on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @09:39AM (#14695780)

So you prefer to have something (which most people have ) with root privileges to pull data unattended, 52 times a year, from some 3rd party host via python then to manually do (if you wanted ONLY once in 3 years) something once a year manually?

Is this really what i am reading?

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Re:Let’s Encrypt in the spotlight by jldugger on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:46PM (#14696884)

Certbot isn't the only acme client in town. I use Chef personally: https://github.com/schubergphilis/chef-acme/

Professionally, it's not once every three years, it's that x the number of clients we host. Which is a lot. Many are clamoring for LE, because it's within their budget: $0. So yea, I want to automate that.

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Re:Let’s Encrypt in the spotlight by majewsky on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @05:27PM (#14698407)

I have another cronjob that fits the same description, runs daily, and it's called "unattended security updates". Just saying.

Edit: Also, it's a persistent myth that certbot needs to run as root. It most certainly doesn't on my servers.

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