Usage GuideClient Operations

Manage Account

How to manage your ACME account including deactivation and viewing account details

We will now discuss how you can perform common account operations through ACME. Your ACME client registers an account on the ACME server using the credentials we provided. This means that for one pair of credentials you can have many ACME accounts, usually at least one for every individual server you use, and one per <PRODUCT> type. Since you will have a different account for every <PRODUCT> type, you will have to include the full server URL when applicable.

Deactivate account

You may wish to do this when the account key is compromised or decommissioned. Note that the ACME account that was registered on the ACME server by your client is not the same thing as your ACME credentials. If your ACME credentials have been compromised generate a new pair and contact us at acme@networking4all.com.

To find out your ACCOUNT-ID please refer to the View account section.

sudo certbot unregister --account <ACCOUNT-ID>
acme.sh --deactivate-account --server <SELECTED-SERVER>

At the time of writing, simple-acme does not support sending a account de-activation request to the ACME server. Please contact us at acme@networking4all.com in case you need an account de-activated manually.

You can however delete the account details that are stored locally. Note that this does not prevent abuse when your account details have already been compromised.

Navigate to %ProgramData%\simple-acme and delete the relevant data.

View account

View information about the account you registered on the ACME server.

sudo certbot show_account --server <SELECTED-SERVER>

At the time of writing, this functionality is not available on acme.sh.

Start simple-acme

wacs --baseuri <SELECTED-SERVER>

You only need to add the --baseuri parameter if you did not add the networking4all ACME server to your settings.json file or if you use a variety of <PRODUCT> types.

Choose O: More options...

View the details

Choose A: ACME account details