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Free HTTPS certificates without having to trust the letsencrypt cli with sudo/root

17 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 15 comments · first 2015-01-19 · latest 2016-05-13

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  1. …ways to configure it, or what I read previously was just wrong. I thought that was why repos like https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo existed for a time. That's good news nonetheless.
  2. …open and as a result there are several alternative clients which do not require root. Here's a few: https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo https://github.com/kuba/simp_le https://github.com/lukas2511/letsencrypt.sh Or you can go a…
  3. Very close to https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo
  4. …letsencrypt-nosudo[1]? Also, mind testing my new browser-based client, gethttpsforfree[2]? [1]: https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo [2]: https://github.com/diafygi/gethttpsforfree
  5. …Let's Encrypt Authority X1 to the IdenTrust root. Here's instructions on how to do this for nginx: https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo#how-to-use-the... [1]: https://letsencrypt.org/certs/lets-encrypt-x1-cross-signed.p...
    comment by diafygi · 2015-11-12 · in Public Beta: December 3, 2015
  6. …Maybe these are temporary limitations and if so I will definitely try again in the future. [0] https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo [1] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html
    comment by tombrossman · 2015-11-12 · in Public Beta: December 3, 2015
  7. Boom, done. 428 lines. Only python and openssl as dependencies. https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo It takes a CSR and user public key as input. Then, it prints the signing commands you need to run (so it doesn't have to know…
    comment by diafygi · 2015-11-05 · in Trying out Let's Encrypt (beta)
  8. https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo If you don't trust the official letsencrypt client, you can use this script to get your free certs. It doesn't install things or ask for sudo access or your private keys or have to be run on…
    comment by diafygi · 2015-10-27 · in Running the Let's Encrypt Beta
  9. …know what they're doing, you can use lightweight clients like mine to just get your free cert. [1]: https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo
    comment by diafygi · 2015-10-27 · in Running the Let's Encrypt Beta
  10. Is this something they can implement themselves? https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo
    comment by mtgx · 2015-10-27 · in Running the Let's Encrypt Beta
  11. …Ruby gem also looks promising, in that it's a much better codebase with a tonne of tests.[1]. [0] https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo [1] https://github.com/unixcharles/acme-client
    comment by technion · 2015-09-15 · in Our First Certificate Is Now Live
  12. This python script is informative: https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo/blob/master/si... A good start for trying to figure out the workflow.
    comment by kyledrake · 2015-06-13 · in Let's Encrypt Overview
  13. …start serving a string over a specific url (which is what the SimpleHTTP challenge requires). [1]: https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo/blob/9607deb7b...
    comment by diafygi · 2015-06-12 · in Let's Encrypt Overview
  14. …process for you. It doesn't have to run on your server, and it doesn't ask for your private keys. https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo The only thing that has to be run as sudo on your production server is a simple python…
    comment by diafygi · 2015-06-12 · in Let's Encrypt Overview
  15. https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo
    comment by baby · 2015-06-12 · in Let's Encrypt Overview