ACMED(8)

📦 version 0.25.0, in alpine 3.24

🦋 acmed — the ACME client daemon (yes, the manual page, but make it cute)

okay so bestie, quick vibe check: this is acmed, and it lives in the system manager's manual, section 8. She's a daemon, she's got main character energy, and she's about to handle your certificates. Let's get into it 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

acmed [-c|--config FILE] [-f|--foreground] [-h|--help] [--log-stderr]
      [--log-syslog] [--log-level LEVEL] [--no-pid-file]
      [--pid-file FILE] [--root-cert FILE] [-V|--version]

like, that's the whole summoning ritual. no cap, it's just flags 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

acmed is an Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) client daemon. Which is a fancy way of saying: she goes out there and automatically requests and renews X.509 security certificates from various Certification Authorities (CA). She's doing all the work so you don't have to. obsessed. 🔥

The options are as follows — read them, love them, use them 💖

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -c, --config FILE — point her at an alternative configuration file. like, "not the usual one, this one."
  • -f, --foreground — runs in the foreground. she stays right there with you 🫶
  • -h, --help — prints help information. the classic "wait what does this do again" button ✨
  • --log-stderr — prints log messages to the standard error output.
  • --log-syslog — sends log messages via syslog.
  • --log-level LEVEL — specify the log level. possible values: error, warn, info, debug and trace. (yes, in that order, from chill to verbose 💀)
  • --no-pid-file — do not create any PID file. no PID file, no problem 🙈
  • --pid-file FILE — specifies the location of the PID file.
  • --root-cert FILE — add a root certificate to the trust store. this option can be used multiple times. stack 'em up, queen 👑
  • -V, --version — prints version information. gotta know which icon you're running ⭐

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/acmed/acmed.toml — the default acmed configuration file. that's home base 🏠

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

acmed.toml(5), tacd(8) — go read those too, bestie, iykyk 💜

🧚 STANDARDS 🧚

  • R. Barnes, J. Hoffman-Andrews, D. McCarney, and J. Kasten, Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME), RFC 8555, March 2019.
  • R.B. Shoemaker, Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) TLS Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) Challenge Extension, RFC 8737, February 2020.
  • R.B. Shoemaker, Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) IP Identifier Validation Extension, RFC 8738, February 2020.

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Rodolphe Bréard ⟨rodolphe@breard.tf⟩ — the icon behind all this. periodt. 🌟

and that's the whole page, bestie! every flag, every file, every RFC, all of it. slay 💅

Debian · Mar 17, 2025 · ACMED(8) — ok bye, go renew your certs 🦋✨

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