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Quick note: dehydrated moved, the license will NOT change, and I will still take care of the project.
See https://lukas.im/2020/01/30/selling-dehydrated/index.html for more details.
Dehydrated is a client for signing certificates with an ACME-server (e.g. Let's Encrypt) implemented as a relatively simple (zsh-compatible) bash-script.
This client supports both ACME v1 and the new ACME v2 including support for wildcard certificates!
It uses the `openssl` utility for everything related to actually handling keys and certificates, so you need to have that installed.
Other dependencies are: cURL, sed, grep, awk, mktemp (all found pre-installed on almost any system, cURL being the only exception).
Current features:
- Signing of a list of domains (including wildcard domains!)
- Signing of a custom CSR (either standalone or completely automated using hooks!)
- Renewal if a certificate is about to expire or defined set of domains changed
- Certificate revocation
Please keep in mind that this software, the ACME-protocol and all supported CA servers out there are relatively young and there might be a few issues. Feel free to report any issues you find with this script or contribute by submitting a pull request,
but please check for duplicates first (feel free to comment on those to get things rolling).
## Getting started
For getting started I recommend taking a look at [docs/domains_txt.md](docs/domains_txt.md), [docs/wellknown.md](docs/wellknown.md) and the [Usage](#usage) section on this page (you'll probably only need the `-c` option).
Generally you want to set up your WELLKNOWN path first, and then fill in domains.txt.
**Please note that you should use the staging URL when experimenting with this script to not hit Let's Encrypt's rate limits.** See [docs/staging.md](docs/staging.md).
If you have any problems take a look at our [Troubleshooting](docs/troubleshooting.md) guide.
## Config
dehydrated is looking for a config file in a few different places, it will use the first one it can find in this order:
- `/etc/dehydrated/config`
- `/usr/local/etc/dehydrated/config`
- The current working directory of your shell
- The directory from which dehydrated was run
Have a look at [docs/examples/config](docs/examples/config) to get started, copy it to e.g. `/etc/dehydrated/config`
and edit it to fit your needs.
## Usage:
```text
Usage: ./dehydrated [-h] [command [argument]] [parameter [argument]] [parameter [argument]] ...
Default command: help
Commands:
--version (-v) Print version information
--register Register account key
--account Update account contact information
--cron (-c) Sign/renew non-existent/changed/expiring certificates.
--signcsr (-s) path/to/csr.pem Sign a given CSR, output CRT on stdout (advanced usage)
--revoke (-r) path/to/cert.pem Revoke specified certificate
--cleanup (-gc) Move unused certificate files to archive directory
--help (-h) Show help text
--env (-e) Output configuration variables for use in other scripts
Parameters:
--accept-terms Accept CAs terms of service
--full-chain (-fc) Print full chain when using --signcsr
--ipv4 (-4) Resolve names to IPv4 addresses only
--ipv6 (-6) Resolve names to IPv6 addresses only
--domain (-d) domain.tld Use specified domain name(s) instead of domains.txt entry (one certificate!)
--alias certalias Use specified name for certificate directory (and per-certificate config) instead of the primary domain (only used if --domain is specified)
--keep-going (-g) Keep going after encountering an error while creating/renewing multiple certificates in cron mode
--force (-x) Force renew of certificate even if it is longer valid than value in RENEW_DAYS
--no-lock (-n) Don't use lockfile (potentially dangerous!)
--lock-suffix example.com Suffix lockfile name with a string (useful for with -d)
--ocsp Sets option in CSR indicating OCSP stapling to be mandatory
--privkey (-p) path/to/key.pem Use specified private key instead of account key (useful for revocation)
--config (-f) path/to/config Use specified config file
--hook (-k) path/to/hook.sh Use specified script for hooks
--out (-o) certs/directory Output certificates into the specified directory
--alpn alpn-certs/directory Output alpn verification certificates into the specified directory
--challenge (-t) http-01|dns-01 Which challenge should be used? Currently http-01 and dns-01 are supported
--algo (-a) rsa|prime256v1|secp384r1 Which public key algorithm should be used? Supported: rsa, prime256v1 and secp384r1
```
## Donate
I'm a student hacker with a few (unfortunately) quite expensive hobbies (self-hosting, virtualization clusters, routing,
high-speed networking, embedded hardware, etc.).
I'm really having fun playing around with hard- and software and I'm steadily learning new things.
Without those hobbies I probably would never have started working on dehydrated to begin with :)
I'd really appreciate if you could [donate a bit of money](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=23P9DSJBTY7C8)
so I can buy cool stuff (while still being able to afford food :D).
If you have hardware laying around that you think I'd enjoy playing with (e.g. decommissioned but still modern-ish servers,
10G networking hardware, enterprise grade routers or APs, interesting ARM/MIPS boards, etc.) and that you would be willing
to ship to me please contact me at `donations@dehydrated.io` or on Twitter [@lukas2511](https://twitter.com/lukas2511).
If you want your name to be added to the [donations list](https://dehydrated.io/donations.html) please add a note or send me an
email `donations@dehydrated.io`. I respect your privacy and won't publish your name without permission.
Other ways of donating:
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