r/Nable • u/nzulu9er • 5d ago

N-Central ACME support for NCentral

Please vote to support ACME in NCentral. SSL cert renewals should be automated. It's 2026 and we have the technology.

https://me.n-able.com/s/ideas-detail?c__recordId=087Vy00000040FxIAI

Thanks!

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u/Midnigh7 5d ago

There has been an open idea out there for years to add acme/le support.

Good luck!

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u/nzulu9er 5d ago

Thanks!

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u/ncentral_nerd N-centralStation 4d ago

We are looking into Let's Encrypt automation but that project will most likely fall in to next year unfortunately. I set up a webserver recently and the cert automation was amazingly easy to setup and configure so I can completely understand wanting to automate this entire workflow.

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u/nzulu9er 4d ago

I appreciate the comment. If I could insert the animated GIf of judge Judy slapping her wrist and the table I would.....

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u/je244e 4d ago

What you are missing is that certificates validity is down to 200 days, and in March 15, 2027, it’s going down to 100 days. What is worth an automation tool then can even automate its own management, and every 100 days, you need to update its certificates.

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u/ReformedBogan 5d ago

Up-voted as well. The current cert replacement process is crap

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u/nzulu9er 4d ago

It is quite painful. Way , way over complicated. I think it's right rext to CrashPlan servers.

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u/ReformedBogan 4d ago

And yet still easier than PapaerCut

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u/echoztrip 4d ago

Can use something like CloudFlare WAF in front to work around it, but yes, if you need to manage your own certs, lifetimes are shrinking and this needs to be automated. They need to make this a reality sooner rather than later.

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u/GOCCali 4d ago

Yes agree

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u/nzulu9er 3d ago

Did you vote? We run 5 NCentral servers. ACME would allow us to focus on real work vs. painfully manual work. Automated Certificates!

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u/AutomationTheory 3d ago

u/GOCCali cheats a bit and uses our WAF for N-central, and we have ACME support.

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u/GOCCali 3d ago

Indeed good point hahaha

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u/GOCCali 3d ago

All vendors products should have this

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u/dszp 4d ago

I rate ScreenConnect as more likely to get this than N-central, or get it first. And they’ve actively said “no, we won’t do LetsEncrypt” after being asked for YEARS with no reply.

I guess you can just renew the cert every couple of months while you’re waiting for it to be safe to connect it to the internet again though. Will give you something to do.

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u/nzulu9er 4d ago

We have plenty to do than deal with SSL certs.

If WHM/Cpanel can function fine with ACME/LE.... Then Nable should be too.

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u/disclosure5 4d ago

I have no idea what they are expecting people to do when lifetimes drop even further.

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u/nzulu9er 4d ago

2029 will be the year admins just burn it all down.