clarify which commands are root by prefixing sudo

nic 2022-06-09 20:29:10 -05:00
parent 074edeb017
commit 5171b5aa31

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sudo.md

@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ YMMV based on Linux distribution and method of installing acme.sh
## create non-root account
For this example, we use "acme" but you can use whatever you'd like.
```
useradd -d /etc/acme-sh/ -s /sbin/nologin -c "acme-sh service account" acme
chown acme:mail /etc/acme-sh/
sudo useradd -d /etc/acme-sh/ -s /sbin/nologin -c "acme-sh service account" acme
sudo chown acme:mail /etc/acme-sh/
```
## define crontab for non-root account
```
su - -s /bin/bash acme
sudo su - -s /bin/bash acme
crontab -e
```
@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ chown acme:acme /var/www/EXAMPLE.com/htdocs/.well-known/acme-challenge
## nginx config
You probably already have a web daemon configuration file for your application. If you are running a mail server, you need a basic http port 80 server for acme.sh
/etc/nginx/conf.d/example.com.conf
```
sudo $EDITOR /etc/nginx/conf.d/example.com.conf
```
```
server {
listen [::]:80;
@ -85,7 +88,7 @@ acme.sh --debug --issue -d mail.example.com -d foo.example.com -d -d bar.example
## visudo
This grants our non-root service account super user rights to restart services during certificate renewals.
```
visudo
sudo visudo
````
Insert this line, adjust to your deployment use-cases and sudo version
@ -97,8 +100,8 @@ acme ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/postfix restart, /etc/init.d/dovecot re
Create a new directory which our non-root account can write certificates into.
```
mkdir /etc/ssl/acme
chown acme:acme /etc/ssl/acme
sudo mkdir /etc/ssl/acme
sudo chown acme:acme /etc/ssl/acme
```
These restart commands should match what you defined in visudo above
@ -110,5 +113,5 @@ acme.sh --installcert -d mail.example.com --keypath /etc/ssl/acme/example.com.k
Your distro might place a global bashrc script. This is not needed.
```
rm /etc/bash/bashrc.d/acme.sh
sudo rm /etc/bash/bashrc.d/acme.sh
```