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certbot: error: argument -m/--email: expected one argument [Debian 10]

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce

# /usr/share/jitsi-meet/scripts/install-letsencrypt-cert.sh
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This script will:
- Need a working DNS record pointing to this machine(for domain jitsi.itkfm.at)
- Download certbot-auto from https://dl.eff.org to /usr/local/sbin
- Install additional dependencies in order to request Let’s Encrypt certificate
- If running with jetty serving web content, will stop Jitsi Videobridge
- Configure and reload nginx or apache2, whichever is used

You need to agree to the ACME server's Subscriber Agreement (https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.1.1-August-1-2016.pdf) 
by providing an email address for important account notifications
Enter your email and press [ENTER]: 
usage: 
  certbot-auto [SUBCOMMAND] [options] [-d DOMAIN] [-d DOMAIN] ...

Certbot can obtain and install HTTPS/TLS/SSL certificates.  By default,
it will attempt to use a webserver both for obtaining and installing the
certificate. 
certbot: error: argument -m/--email: expected one argument

Environment details

fresh install on Debian 10

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:10 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

itkfmcommented, Mar 18, 2020

Didn’t prompt me. Did jump right over that step.

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cobordismcommented, Oct 8, 2020

I made the mistake of just pressing Enter. The problem is the layout of this wall of text:

This script will:
- Need a working DNS record pointing to this machine(for domain meet.quarantine.family)
- Download certbot-auto from https://dl.eff.org to /usr/local/sbin
- Install additional dependencies in order to request Let’s Encrypt certificate
- If running with jetty serving web content, will stop Jitsi Videobridge
- Configure and reload nginx or apache2, whichever is used
- Configure the coturn server to use Let's Encrypt certificate and add required deploy hooks
- Add command in weekly cron job to renew certificates regularly

You need to agree to the ACME server's Subscriber Agreement (https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.1.1-August-1-2016.pdf) 
by providing an email address for important account notifications
Enter your email and press [ENTER]:

I read all the “This script will” part and then I pressed Enter to proceed. 😕 I missed the fact that is was asking for an email.

Anyway, running the script again fixed the problem.