Win-acme dnsscript for acme-dns

own3mall · April 28, 2020, 4:45am

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): Yes

After much confusion, I was able to setup an acme-dns server (https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns) on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine. Now I have a Windows server that needs to get a certificate, but it seems that win-acme (https://www.win-acme.com/reference/cli) expects a script to handle the updating and deleting of the txt records for the domain (it doesn’t know how to do it itself even though I provided it with my API credentials). Can anyone provide me with a sample script that will work with win-acme and acme-dns?

Just one step away I think from getting it all to work.

own3mall · April 28, 2020, 6:25am

Nevermind, I wrote one myself:

stevenzhu · April 28, 2020, 7:08am

Hi,

I’m not sure if this is what you wanted, but there’s an existing plugin for acme-dns in win-acme codebase.

github.com

win-acme/win-acme/blob/master/docs/reference/plugins/validation/dns/acme-dns.md

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sidebar: reference
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# acme-dns
Use an [acme-dns](https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns) server to handle the validation records. 
The plugin will ask you to choose an endpoint to use. For testing the `https://auth.acme-dns.io/` 
endpoint is useful, but it is a security concern. As the readme of that project clearly states: 

> "You are encouraged to run your own acme-dns instance."

It's possible to use basic authentication for your acme-dns service by specifying a url with 
the format `https://user:password@acme-dns.example.com/`

## Unattended
Not supported, unless there is a pre-existing acme-dns registration for all the domains. 
The reason for this is that acme-dns requires you to create CNAME records. In the future this 
might be scripted the same way we can script DNS validation itself, but so far there hasn't been
enough demand for that feature to make it worth developing.

own3mall · April 28, 2020, 2:50pm

@stevenzhu I tried using that format, but I couldn’t get it to work. I only got it to work by using the Python script I wrote.

It’s possible I did something wrong.

system · May 28, 2020, 2:50pm

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