On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 06:40:01PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 05:11:24PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2018/01/15 12:16, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > I generally prefer to use acme-client than the python or bash+openssl(1)
> > > monstrosities to fetch SSL certificates, but I have some systems where
> > > I need to use the DNS-01 challenge type which was removed from the
> > > version in base.

IIRC we didn't remove it, we imported before Kristaps' implemented
dns-01. Then I looked how he implemented it, he mumbled something
about popen and I ran away screaming...

> > > 
> > > Any objections or OKs to adding a port for Kristaps' original version
> > > (attached)?
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hrrmmmm. Now I've tried to actually run dns-01 from a shell script rather
> > than faking it with copy-and-paste, I'm not sure if it's actually going to
> > be all that useful...
> > 
> > The mechanism requires
> > 
> > 1. read from acme-client's stdout.
> > 2. run a command based on that output.
> > 3. when the command has run, echo the line back to acme-client's stdin.
> > 
> > (repeat until EOF from acme-client.)

... with good reason as you discovered.

> > 
> > I've tried with "eacme-client | (while read... )", various ways with
> > fifos, and coroutines, but it all blocks somewhere. Now I started
> > reading the expect(1) manual to try and do it that way which is never
> > a good sign...

While what Kristaps' implemented looked doable in theory, I thought it
would be very difficult to add to cronjobs or the like.

> > 
> 
> Can't acme-client just spawn a user-configurable command and communicate
> with it via fifos/stdin/stdout ? Fwiw, for dns-01 i use acme.sh which
> works, but i agree it's not pretty....
> 

The way Benno and me wanted to implement it (but ENOTIME) was that you call
acme-client multiple times.
1st call: give me the things that I need to put into DNS
2nd call: I put things into DNS, go ahead, do your thing.

I have not looked at the protocol though. Maybe you need more calls?

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