I’m making this post to get some information from users on how they find a current behavior of Certbot so we can potentially improve it. I’d like to hear from people what their first impressions were and if they found its current behavior intuitive or not. If you spend a lot of time helping people u…

hi @bmw I think if people were aware of this fact then they would know to check those config files But most things that seem to be intuitive (e.g. difference between http and dns challenges) seem to stump a lot of people Andrei

For what it’s worth, I’ve never personally been confused by this particular behaviour, nor do I recall encountering anyone who was. Plenty of people seem to expect renew to be even more magical than it already is, but I haven’t encountered this sort of confusion regarding the other subcommands.

@ahaw021 , thanks for the input. Have you or somewhat you’ve talked to been stumped or surprised by previously specified values for a certificate aren’t used with Certbot subcommands other than renew?

personally I haven’t but there are at least 20 questions a week about renewals in the forums some of the things I observe most A) Issuse with the client auto update behavior - people expect just to renew and there are errors beacuse certbot can’t update B) Users wanting to change certificates or …

Got it. I personally haven’t seen confusion here either. I think the conventional behavior of command line tools is to not store options between runs of the program. Many tools offer configuration files for reusing values ( like Certbot does ), however, these values are explicitly set by the user eit…

Certbot certonly/run and renewal parameters

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Certbot certonly/run and renewal parameters

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