[Mashiro]

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chown youruser:yourgroup certbot-auto
chmod +x certbot-auto

Root permission is certainly required when running certbot as it has to access directories and tools that only root can access/run. So running it as root or with sudo is necessary.


The error about TXT records is about right. You run certbot from a different host it will require different new TXT records. Even if you were about to request the certificate (mind that I'm not saying renew) again from the old host you would have to update the TXT records, too. Normal behavior.

I recommend running certbot in screen or tmux when requesting a certificate for the first time as sometimes you have to wait very long until the TXT records are fully available via DNS requests. And if you in that case don't wait long enough and certbot fails to verify the DNS record... guess what. You request it again and you get different TXT records again.