Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. https://crt.sh/?q=example.com), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.
My domain is:
usmcmta.org
I ran this command:
letsencrypt-auto
It produced this output:
su or sudo not found (don’t remember exact verbiage)
My web server is (include version):
Apache
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Linux
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):
No
I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):
Yes.
I am in a shared hosting environment on Godaddy. I attempted to install certbot from the command line, only to discover that it requires root privileges. I initially called Godday to see if I could get sudo privileges to complete the install, but then after reading over the installation script, I see that it actually requires to be run as root. Why?
Why does certbot run as root and not as a user? In a shared hosting environment, I can’t use Let’s Encrypt. I love the idea of using open source technology, but I can’t in my enviromnet. Certbot should run as either the user installing it, or a service account, but its not a good practice to run it as root.
Thank you.
Daryl