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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    If you have no desire to do rudimentary googling for a group project in college, that sounds like you aren’t a very helpful teammate. Last time I generated certs I used the first stack overflow result and was done in minutes, there’s no excuse.

    [–] ricecake 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    This is confusing to me, because the point of the request seems to be "get a certificate", not "get a self signed certificate generated by running the openssl command". If you know how to get the result, it doesn't really matter if you remembered offhand the shitty way or the overkill way.

    Is it really more helpful to say "I remember how to do this, but let me lookup a different way that doesn't use the tools I'm familiar with"?

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Okay, I may be the stupid one here. But after a quick search, I don't see an obvious way to generate self-signed certs using certbot. Even letsencrypt's own website suggests using openssl.

    [–] ricecake 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    I think they generated real certs, rather than self signed.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Then that's actually against what was wanted. To get real certs, you have to open up the server to the internet.

    [–] ricecake 0 points 8 months ago

    That's not the case, you just need to be able to make an outbound connection.

    The minutiae of how certbot works or if that specific person actually did it right or wrong is kind of aside the point of my "intended to be funny but seemingly was not" comment about how sometimes the easiest solution to implement is the one you remember, even if it's overkill for the immediate problem.