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I wouldn't be offended. Many people including me have personal and work experience in this area as well. No one is saying you're wrong, but even you acknowledge there are other ways to upload certificates.. usually involving an API as well. If you want to run unchecked third-party 1000+ line bash scripts on production appliances, by all means go right ahead.


> If you want to run unchecked third-party 1000+ line bash scripts on production appliances, by all means go right ahead.

Again, I have a better chance at reading all the code of dehydrated (which I have, in fact, done), then reading all of the Python code that certbot pulls in via dependencies on Ubuntu/Debian.




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