[Letsencrypt-devel] Bug#832066: certbot installs an unexpected cronjob

[Alex]

Package: certbot
Version: 0.8.1-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

certbot installs a cronjob for automatic renewal without any information
for the administrator. While this is a nice idea to make renewing
certificates with letsencrypt easy, it is totally unexpected behaviour
and can cause confusion if another process to manage the renewal is used
by the administrator.

I suggest:
- there should be a /etc/default/certbot configuration file with a
  parameter to disable automatic renewal. Maybe make it configurable via
  AUTO_RENEW="all" # (all or list the domains to auto renew here
- The admin needs to be informed. Some good option would be to use
  debconf to present a dialog on installation "enable auto renewal
  (recommended)".

wkr,
Alexander Schier


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages certbot depends on:
ii  dialog          1.2-20140911-1
ii  python-certbot  0.8.1-2
pn  python:any      <none>

certbot recommends no packages.

Versions of packages certbot suggests:
pn  python-certbot-apache  <none>
pn  python-certbot-doc     <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.d/certbot changed:
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin


-- no debconf information