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by diafygi 3856 days ago
No worries! Every time I see a Let's Encrypt thread on HN, there's always complaining about having to trust the official client with root access, webserver configs, dependencies, or whatever. So I made my clients (letsencrypt-nosudo, gethttpsforfree.com, acme-tiny) to shut those people up. My clients are not intended to serve the wider Let's Encrypt target audience, who probably don't know what a CSR is. But for those who do, I made clients that don't ask for the access/trust that the official client needs to serve its target audience.

Thanks for making Let's Encrypt and ACME!

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And thanks for writing acme-tiny!

It was really easy to setup automatic renewals, running as an ordinary user. sudo access for reloading apache is the only privileged operation necessary. Great job!