Certbot installs lack renewal timers and use manual auth
Certbot installed by pip or dnf has no renewal timer, and renewal configs saved with manual auth cannot renew unattended.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
32 public reports · first reported 8 October 2026 · last reported 9 October 2026
What's going wrong
A sysadmin on a Fedora server found that certbot was installed in an unknown way, with a pip virtual environment under /opt and no systemd renewal timer.
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