NAME

uacme - ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal dependencies

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

uacme is a client for the ACMEv2 protocol described in RFC8555, written in plain C with minimal dependencies (libcurl and one of GnuTLS, OpenSSL or mbedTLS). The ACMEv2 protocol allows a Certificate Authority (https://letsencrypt.org is a popular one) and an applicant to automate the process of verification and certificate issuance. The protocol also provides facilities for other certificate management functions, such as certificate revocation. For more information see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8555

OPTIONS

-a, --acme-url URL

ACMEv2 server directory object URL. If not specified uacme uses one of the following:

https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory

production URL

https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory

staging URL (see -s, --staging below)

-b, --bits BITS

key bit length (default 2048 for RSA, 256 for EC). Only applies to newly generated keys. RSA key length must be a multiple of 8 between 2048 and 8192. EC key length must be either 256 (NID_X9_62_prime256v1 curve) or 384 (NID_secp384r1 curve).

-c, --confdir CONFDIR

Use configuration directory CONFDIR (default /usr/local/etc/ssl/uacme). The structure is as follows (multiple IDENTIFIERs allowed)

CONFDIR/private/key.pem

ACME account private key

CONFDIR/private/IDENTIFIER/key.pem

certificate key for IDENTIFIER

CONFDIR/IDENTIFIER/cert.pem

certificate for IDENTIFIER

-d, --days DAYS

Do not reissue certificates that are still valid for longer than DAYS (default 30). See also -o, --no-ocsp.

-e, --eab KEYID:KEY

Specify RFC8555 External Account Binding credentials according to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8555#section-7.3.4, in order to associate a new ACME account with an existing account in a non-ACME system such as a CA customer database. KEYID must be an ASCII string. KEY must be base64url-encoded.

-f, --force

Force certificate reissuance regardless of expiration date.

-h, --hook PROGRAM

Challenge hook program. If not specified uacme interacts with the user for every ACME challenge, printing information about the challenge type, token and authorization on stderr. If specified uacme executes PROGRAM (a binary, a shell script or any file that can be executed by the operating system) for every challenge with the following 5 string arguments:

METHOD

one of begin, done or failed.

begin

is called at the beginning of the challenge. PROGRAM must return 0 to accept it. Any other return code declines the challenge. Neither done nor failed method calls are made for declined challenges.

done

is called upon successful completion of an accepted challenge.

failed

is called upon failure of an accepted challenge.

TYPE

challenge type (dns-01, http-01 or tls-alpn-01)

IDENT

The identifier the challenge refers to

TOKEN

The challenge token

AUTH

The key authorization (for dns-01 and tls-alpn-01 already converted to the base64url-encoded SHA256 digest format)

-l, --alternate N | FP

According to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8555#section-7.4.2 the server MAY provide one or more additional certificate download URLs, each pointing to alternative certificate chains starting with the same end-entity certificate. This option allows selecting one such chain in one of two ways. A positive integer N makes uacme select the Nth alternative chain in the order presented by the server. A colon (:) separated list of two or more 2-digit hexadecimal numbers FP makes uacme select the first alternative chain containing a certificate whose SHA256 fingerprint begins with FP. In both cases uacme falls back to the main certificate URL if it cannot match an alternative chain or the download thereof fails.

-m, --must-staple

Request certificates with the RFC7633 Certificate Status Request TLS Feature Extension, informally also known as "OCSP Must-Staple". This option is ignored when using an externally supplied Certificate Signing Request file (see USAGE below).

-n, --never-create

By default uacme creates directories/keys if they do not exist. When this option is specified uacme never does so and instead exits with an error if anything required is missing.

-o, --no-ocsp

When this flag is not specified and the certificate has an Authority Information Access extension with an OCSP server location according to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.2.1 uacme makes an OCSP request to the server; if the certificate is reported as revoked uacme forces reissuance regardless of the expiration date. See also -d, --days.

-s, --staging

Use Let’s Encrypt staging URL for testing. This only works if -a, --acme-url is NOT specified.

-t, --type=RSA | EC

Key type, either RSA or EC. Only applies to newly generated keys. The bit length can be specified with -b, --bits.

-v, --verbose

By default uacme only produces output upon errors or when user interaction is required. When this option is specified uacme prints information about what is going on on stderr. This option can be specified more than once to increase verbosity.

-V, --version

Print program version on stderr and exit.

-y, --yes

Autoaccept ACME server terms (if any) upon new account creation.

-?, --help

Print a brief usage text on stderr and exit.

USAGE

uacme [OPTIONS ...] new [EMAIL]

Create a new ACME account with optional EMAIL contact. If the account private key does not exist at CONFDIR/private/key.pem a new key is generated unless -n, --never-create is specified. A valid account must be created before any other operation can succeed (with the exception of certificate revocation requests signed by the certificate private key). Any certificate issued by the ACME server is associated with a single account. An account can be associated with multiple certificates, subject of course to the rate limits imposed by the ACME server.

uacme [OPTIONS ...] update [EMAIL]

Update the EMAIL associated with the ACME account corresponding to the account private key. If EMAIL is not specified the account contact email is removed.

uacme [OPTIONS ...] deactivate

Deactivate the ACME account corresponding to the account private key. WARNING this action is irreversible. Users may wish to do this when the account key is compromised or decommissioned. A deactivated account can no longer request certificate issuances and revocations or access resources related to the account.

uacme [OPTIONS ...] newkey

Change the ACME account private key. If the new account private key does not exist at CONFDIR/private/newkey.pem it is generated unless -n, --never-create is specified. The new key is then submitted to the server and if the operation succeeds the old key is hardlinked to CONFDIR/private/key-TIMESTAMP.pem before renaming CONFDIR/private/newkey.pem to CONFDIR/private/key.pem.

uacme [OPTIONS ...] issue IDENTIFIER [ALTNAME ...]

Issue a certificate for IDENTIFIER with zero or more ALTNAMEs. If a certificate is already available at CONFDIR/IDENTIFIER/cert.pem for the specified IDENTIFIER and ALTNAMEs and is still valid for longer than DAYS no action is taken unless -f, --force is specified or -o, --no-ocsp is not specified and the certificate is reported as revoked by the OCSP server. The new certificate is saved to CONFDIR/IDENTIFIER/cert.pem. If the certificate file already exists it is hardlinked to CONFDIR/IDENTIFIER/cert-TIMESTAMP.pem before overwriting. The private key for the certificate is loaded from CONFDIR/private/IDENTIFIER/key.pem. If no such file exists, a new key is generated unless -n, --never-create is specified. Wildcard IDENTIFIERs or ALTNAMEs are dealt with correctly, as long as the ACME server supports them; note that any such wildcards are automatically removed from the configuration subdirectory name: for example a certificate for *.test.com is saved to CONFDIR/test.com/cert.pem. IP address IDENTIFIERs and ALTNAMEs are also supported according to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8738#section-3

uacme [OPTIONS ...] issue CSRFILE

Issue a certificate based on a RFC2986 Certificate Signing Request contained in CSRFILE, which must be in PEM format. In this mode of issuance uacme neither needs nor generates the certificate private key, but it is of course the responsibility of the user to ensure that the CSR is constructed and signed appropriately. If a certificate file CSRBASE-cert.pem (where CSRBASE is obtained by stripping the extension, if any, from CSRFILE) is already available in the same directory containing CSRFILE, and is still valid for longer than DAYS no action is taken unless -f, --force is specified or -o, --no-ocsp is not specified and the certificate is reported as revoked by the OCSP server. If the certificate file already exists it is hardlinked to BASENAME-cert-TIMESTAMP.pem before overwriting. Wildcard identifiers in the CSR are dealt with correctly, as long as the ACME server supports them. IP addresses are also supported according to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8738#section-3

uacme [OPTIONS ...] revoke CERTFILE [CERTKEYFILE]

Revoke the certificate stored in CERTFILE. The revocation request is signed with the private key of either the certificate, when CERTKEYFILE is specified; or the ACME account associated with the certificate, when only CERTFILE is specified. In the first instance the account key and the configuration directory are not required. If successful CERTFILE is renamed to revoked-TIMESTAMP.pem.

EXIT STATUS

Success

Certificate not reissued because it is still current

Failure (syntax or usage error; configuration error; processing failure; unexpected error).

EXAMPLE HOOK SCRIPT

The uacme.sh hook script included in the distribution can be used to automate the certificate issuance with http-01 challenges, provided a web server for the domain being validated runs on the same machine, with webroot at /var/www

#!/bin/sh
CHALLENGE_PATH=/var/www/.well-known/acme-challenge
ARGS=5
E_BADARGS=85

if test $# -ne "$ARGS"
then
    echo "Usage: $(basename "$0") method type ident token auth" 1>&2
    exit $E_BADARGS
fi

METHOD=$1
TYPE=$2
IDENT=$3
TOKEN=$4
AUTH=$5

case "$METHOD" in
    "begin")
        case "$TYPE" in
            http-01)
                echo -n "${AUTH}" > "${CHALLENGE_PATH}/${TOKEN}"
                exit $?
                ;;
            *)
                exit 1
                ;;
        esac
        ;;
    "done"|"failed")
        case "$TYPE" in
            http-01)
                rm "${CHALLENGE_PATH}/${TOKEN}"
                exit $?
                ;;
            *)
                exit 1
                ;;
        esac
        ;;
    *)
        echo "$0: invalid method" 1>&2
        exit 1
esac

BUGS

If you believe you have found a bug, please create a new issue at https://github.com/ndilieto/uacme/issues with any applicable information.

AUTHOR

uacme was written by Nicola Di Lieto

COPYRIGHT

This file is part of uacme.

uacme is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

uacme is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.