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:lock: acmetool, an automatic certificate acquisition tool for ACME (Let's Encrypt)

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2015-12-05 · latest 2018-10-24

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  1. …nagios check (use the -C flag on check_http). If you use Letsencrypt with a client like acmetool ( https://github.com/hlandau/acme ) your certs will never expire. Of course the nagios check is still necessary to ensure acmetool keeps doing…
    comment by cure · 2018-10-24 · in Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
  2. I've really enjoyed using https://github.com/hlandau/acme and we use it in prod. I'm not sure how up to date https://github.com/hlandau/acme#comparison-list-of-client-im... is.
    comment by pricechild · 2017-07-06 · in Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018
  3. …have been easy with simple cgi script (just send nohup), but alas, nginx does not support cgi. [1] https://github.com/hlandau/acme [2] https://github.com/zokier/acmetool-docker
    comment by zokier · 2016-11-01 · in Let's Automate Let's Encrypt
  4. …HTTPs domain validation? Would be nice if it would help with DNS based validation as well. I'm using github.com/hlandau/acme/acmeapi at the moment, but the API isn't documented well. Their command line client is better, but library is more…
    comment by valums · 2016-08-17 · in Show HN: Automatic access to certificates from any ACME-based CA
  5. I've found the best tool for getting certs from LE is this: https://github.com/hlandau/acme
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2016-05-16 · in CertBot: Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with Let's Encrypt certs
  6. I've found acmetool perfect for my use and this table explains why: https://github.com/hlandau/acme#comparison-list-of-client-im... The biggest feature the official letsencrypt client was missing was triggering restarts of other services…
    comment by pricechild · 2016-05-13 · in Announcing Certbot: EFF's Client for Let's Encrypt
  7. …DoS bug in a different Go acme library identical to this one I found in acmetool in less than 60s: https://github.com/hlandau/acme/blob/master/acmeapi/ocsp.go#... In case it is not obvious, anyone in a privileged point on the network can…
    comment by tyho · 2016-04-12 · in Leaving Beta, New Sponsors
  8. …able to plug this into your crontab without any issues. Depends how limited your SSH is, though. 1. https://github.com/hlandau/acme . Great tool. Unfortunately the official Let's Encrypt client tooling is really quite poor. Python was not…
    comment by regecks · 2016-03-09 · in Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates
  9. …encrypt client is very heavy-weight. In my case I've build a much simpler thing using acmetool ( https://github.com/hlandau/acme ) which is mcuh simpler to use and nicely runs without root rights. In my case, a lot of the routing of…
    comment by pilif · 2016-02-22 · in Using Free SSL/TLS Certificates from Let’s Encrypt for Nginx
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    Show HN: ACME Let's Encrypt client – binary releases, works like 'make'
    story by davewongillies · 2015-12-06 · 30 comments
  11. …so after a few restarts you will get your domain temporarily banned from let's encrypt. [1] https://github.com/hlandau/acme.t or `go get github.com/hlandau/acme/cmd/acmetool` [2] acmetool quickstart && acmetool want example.com…
    comment by andmarios · 2015-12-05 · in Show HN: Acme-tiny, a tiny 200-line Let's Encrypt client