Let’s Encrypt is a Certificate Authority which is able to create and release free SSL/TLS certificates we can use to enable encryption and secure our websites. All the biggest hosting providers allow their customers to request Let’s Encrypt certificates in a user-friendly way, via administration panels like Cpanel or Plesk. If we have SSH access to a remote host, however, we can obtain a Let’s Encrypt certificate from the command line, by using Certbot. In this article, we learn how to install Certbot on the most used Linux distributions, and how to use it to obtain and manage valid Let’s Encrypt certificates.
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Detach process from parent on Linux
Every program you run from your working shell is, to the Linux system, regarded as a process. Each process, except init, has its parent identified by PPID (parent process ID). When you start a process using your current shell, the shell itself becomes a parent for your newly started process. The trouble with this approach is that this may not always be desirable, since when the parent process is terminated, its child dies with it.
How to generate a self-signed SSL certificate on Linux
SSL is a protocol used to encrypt and authenticate data on networks, typically between a server and a client. The SSL protocol, and its successor, TLS, use asymmetric encryption which is based on two keys: a private and a public one.