Hi Michael,

but the way I see it is that we could just purchase a Wildcard SSL certificate instead of using ACME which seems a bit of a hassle.
Am I correct?


IMO, using automatic ACME certs in AstLinux is the least-hassle approach ... after the initial setup.

The hassle with a 1-2 year Wildcard SSL cert (other than the cost) is it needs to be deployed and updated to all the boxes, even if only every 1-2 years.  You would need to create some sort of CRON script to do that, and probably with authentication.

If you go through the trouble of creating a Wildcard SSL cert deploy/update system, you just as well mint your own Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certs at a central location, at no cost every two months.

You need to weigh the pros/cons for your situation, I use Cloudflare for my ACME DNS validation, and after many renewals for many boxes using non-wildcard certs, it just works.

Lonnie




On Apr 10, 2019, at 5:34 AM, Michael Knill <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote:

Hi Group

As I am looking to encourage the use of web portals that we have built into Astlinux, I am having to consider the use of non self signed certificates to stop the browser complaining.
The web interface for all our systems is accessible with <customer id>.ibcaccess.net.
Forgive me for my ignorance but I'm not that good with SSL certificates but the way I see it is that we could just purchase a Wildcard SSL certificate instead of using ACME which seems a bit of a hassle.
Am I correct?

Regards
Michael Knill
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