Re: Let's Encrypt

Micheas Herman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.security.general
Message-ID <CAJw6ij=bHB-bZoxmgkqEYyxfR6ue8VB3AL_2kfh7hzChODY-4w@mail.gmail.com>
You would ideally create a certbot user that has just the permissions it
needs.

It has a fairly decent security history. So it's probably not the worst to
run as root in a limited manner.



On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 5:52 PM Victor Sudakov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> >
> > #minute       hour    mday    month   wday    who     command
> >
> > 52    4       1       *       *       root    certbot renew --quiet
> --pre-hook "service apache24 stop" --post-hook "service apache24 start"
> > 52    1       15      *       *       root    certbot renew --quiet
> --pre-hook "service apache24 stop" --post-hook "service apache24 start"
>
> Is it safe to run certbot as root?
>
> --
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
>
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