NAME

acmed — ACME client daemon

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

acmed is an Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) client daemon which can automatically request and renew X.509 security certificates from various Certification Authorities (CA).

The options are as follows:

-c, --config FILE

Specify an alternative configuration file.

-f, --foreground

Runs in the foreground

-h, --help

Prints help information

--log-stderr

Prints log messages to the standard error output

--log-syslog

Sends log messages via syslog

--log-level LEVEL

Specify the log level. Possible values: error, warn, info, debug and trace.

--no-pid-file

Do not create any PID file

--pid-file FILE

Specifies the location of the PID file

--root-cert FILE

Add a root certificate to the trust store. This option can be used multiple times.

-V, --version

Prints version information

FILES

/etc/acmed/acmed.toml

Default acmed configuration file.

SEE ALSO

acmed.toml(5), tacd(8)

STANDARDS

• R. Barnes, J. Hoffman-Andrews, D. McCarney, and J. Kasten, Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME), RFC 8555, March 2019.
• R.B. Shoemaker, Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) TLS Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) Challenge Extension, RFC 8737, February 2020.
• R.B. Shoemaker, Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) IP Identifier Validation Extension, RFC 8738, February 2020.

AUTHORS

Rodolphe Bréard ⟨rodolphe@breard.tf⟩