The Let’s Encrypt initiative is a fantastic program that is going to offer free https certificates! However, the one catch is that you need to use their command program to get a free certificate. You have to run it on your your server as root, and it tries to edit your apache/nginx config files.

I love the Let’s Encrypt devs dearly, but there’s no way I’m going to trust their script to run on my server as root, be able to edit my server configs, and have access to my private keys. I’d just like the free ssl certificate, please.

So I made a script that does that.