ACME-TINY(1)

📦 version 5.0.2, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

okay bestie, welcome to the manual for acme-tiny 🎀 this is the ACME-TINY(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and it's giving tiny-but-mighty energy 💅

✨ NAME ✨

acme-tiny is a letsencrypt tiny python client 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

acme-tiny [-h] --account-key ACCOUNT_KEY --csr CSR --acme-dir ACME_DIR
[--quiet] [--disable-check] [--directory-url DIRECTORY_URL] [--contact
[CONTACT [CONTACT ...]]]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so this script does the whole vibe of getting a signed TLS certificate from Let's Encrypt using the ACME protocol 🔥 it has to run on your server and needs access to your private account key, so PLEASE READ THROUGH IT!! 😭 it's only ~200 lines, so it's not a big commitment, I promise 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h, --help — shows a quick summary of the options 💅
  • --account-key ACCOUNT_KEY — where your Let's Encrypt account private key lives 🔑
  • --csr CSR — where your certificate signing request is hanging out 📜
  • --acme-dir ACME_DIR — the path to the .well-known/acme-challenge/ directory 🧚
  • --quiet — shhh 🤫 only errors get to talk, everything else is muted
  • --disable-check — turns off the check that makes sure the challenge file is hosted correctly before it tells the CA 🙈
  • --directory-url DIRECTORY_URL — the certificate authority directory url. the default is Let's Encrypt, so you only need this if you're going somewhere else 🌈
  • --contact [CONTACT [CONTACT ...]] — contact details for your account-key, like mailto:aaa@bbb.com 💌

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

acme-tiny --account-key ./account.key --csr ./domain.csr --acme-dir /usr/share/nginx/html/.well-known/acme-challenge/ > signed_chain.crt

🦋 EXAMPLE CRONTAB RENEWAL 🦋

this one is the renewal crontab, and it's giving set-it-and-forget-it 🥹

0 0 1 * * acme_tiny --account-key /path/to/account.key --csr /path/to/domain.csr --acme-dir /usr/share/nginx/html/.well-known/acme-challenge/ > /path/to/signed_chain.crt 2>> /var/log/acme_tiny.log

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

check these out, they're iconic 👀

bye bestie 🫶 this page is dated 2019-04-07 and it's still a whole mood 💖 now go renew those certs and stay iconic ✨🌈

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