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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Certbot is basically automatic, think mines on a cronjob now.

Who actually does this shit manually?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

Any number of numerous appliances and hideously malformed business systems that don't have ways to automate cert changes.

Not everyone gets to work in their simple little world of standards-following lab servers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This has a lot of "I can use the bus perfectly fine for my needs, so we should outlaw cars" energy to it.

There are several systems, like firewalls , switches, routers, proprietary systems and so on that only has a manual process for updating, that can't be easily automated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

With 45 day certs it will get that functionality real fast

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hah. Snake oil vendors will still sell snake oil, CEO will still be dazzled by fancy dinners and fast talking salesmen, and IT will still be tasked with keeping the crap running.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, this is like changing your password every 45 days.