Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 6 Sep 2018, Louis Kowolowski wrote: I also created /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/post/apache-restart: #!/usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/systemctl restart httpd.service >/dev/null 2>/dev/null I"m not familiar with apache any more (haven't really used it in probably a decade). If loading in

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-06 Thread Louis Kowolowski
On Sep 6, 2018, at 11:02 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Louis Kowolowski wrote: > >> I believe that you can run the renew frequently and it won't actually renew >> until the time is right. Something like daily/weekly cron. >> >> Also, you want to make sure that when you

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Louis Kowolowski wrote: I believe that you can run the renew frequently and it won't actually renew until the time is right. Something like daily/weekly cron. Also, you want to make sure that when you renew, that it triggers a reload for your web server. Otherwise the

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-05 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
I can confirm both of Louis' comments: - you can run it daily and it doesn't abuse their server or change the certificate until <30 days remain. That's the setup I use daily in cron, but shown here from the command line: # letsencrypt renew Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.q42.me.conf

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-05 Thread Louis Kowolowski
I believe that you can run the renew frequently and it won't actually renew until the time is right. Something like daily/weekly cron. Also, you want to make sure that when you renew, that it triggers a reload for your web server. Otherwise the new cert won't be picked up and you'll be

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Tomas Kuchta (and several others) wrote: LetsEncrypt.org Thanks to everyone who chimed in! The setup for LetsEncrypt was pretty easy using certbot, so I've installed a new key/cert/chain and will try living with it for a while. Supposedly it will be eligible for

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Are there any other authorities other let's encrypt with free as in freedom purpose? LetsEncrypt.org Unless of course you need cert for somebody else's web. Tomas On Wed, Sep 5, 2018, 12:49 PM Louis Kowolowski wrote: > If you're OK with the added requirement of having to renew the cert every

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-05 Thread Louis Kowolowski
If you're OK with the added requirement of having to renew the cert every 3mo, and the machine is publicly reachable (either directly or indirectly) on tcp/80 and tcp/443, LetsEncrypt is probably a reasonable choice (as others have pointed out). There are a number of tools available for

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-05 Thread Galen Seitz
On 09/05/2018 11:09 AM, Alexandre Bedard wrote: On 9/5/2018 10:59 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: So what CAs do you all favor these days? Have you tried https://letsencrypt.org/ ? Free, publicly trusted SSL certificates. One of the differences between this and traditional commercial CA's is that

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-05 Thread Russell Senior
Letsencrypt++. Free, good browser coverage, easy administration with certbot or equivalent. On Wed, Sep 5, 2018, 11:11 Alexandre Bedard wrote: > > On 9/5/2018 10:59 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > So what CAs do you all favor these days? > > Have you tried https://letsencrypt.org/ ? > > Free,

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-05 Thread Alexandre Bedard
On 9/5/2018 10:59 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: So what CAs do you all favor these days? Have you tried https://letsencrypt.org/ ? Free, publicly trusted SSL certificates. One of the differences between this and traditional commercial CA's is that the certificate is due for renewal every 90

[PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

2018-09-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
The SSL certificate for my web site is due to expire in a few days. I'm not beholden to my current certificate authority (CA) and my requirements are pretty standard: * decent browser support * modern crypto * quick turnaround on requests I have no problem using chained certificates if