[BUG] unrecognized arguments while following the instructions

[Louis-d-C]

I am currently trying to use this plugin on my debian 10 server to obtain a wildcard certificate. I followed every step, but when it came to the certbot command, it fails with the error

certbot: error: unrecognized arguments: --dns-gandi-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/gandi/gandi.ini

[ferblape]

Try with the old syntax https://pypi.org/project/certbot-plugin-gandi/1.2.3/

[Synchro]

Old syntax doesn't work either.

[hitokiri8x]

Have you installed the package as normal user and run certbot as SU?

[Synchro]

No, it's installed as root (using the EFF official snap) and run as root. Either way, I'm assuming I'm running into the problems described in #22. It's a shame that Gandi's own plugin is also defunct; they're not doing themselves any favours when all their competitors are supported!

[hitokiri8x]

I've installed 2 weeks ago on my RPi, cannot recall the first command, but this is my working crontab command for renew.

certbot renew -q --authenticator dns-gandi --dns-gandi-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/gandi.ini

Certbot was installed though apt

[sblondon]

@Louis-d-C Which package managers do you use to get this error (pip or debian)?

I have the same error with debian packages (Debian GNU/Linux 11 - bullseye) but it works in a virtualenv and pip packages:

sudo apt install python3-venv
python3 -m venv venv
./venv/bin/pip install certbot
./venv/bin/pip install certbot-plugin-gandi
sudo ./venv/bin/certbot certonly --authenticator dns-gandi --dns-gandi-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/gandi.ini -d testdns.domain.tld

In case it helps, the versions are different:

lib	debian	pip
certbot	1.12.0	1.22.0
certbot-plugin-gandi	1.2.5-3	1.3.2

[baradhili]

I found using sudo certbot and the syntax from https://pypi.org/project/certbot-plugin-gandi/1.2.3/ worked when I installed things from apt on ubuntu 20

[Korko]

Fixed on my side, the issue was that certbot was called with sudo while the plugin was install without sudo so only for my local user.

sudo pip install certbot-plugin-gandi
Did the trick

[HLFH]

@Louis-d-C Can you specify your version of certbot and certbot-plugin-gandi, and their installation mode (apt, snap, pip)?

@Synchro The snap installation mode is not supported. But this project is open to any PR that will add support to it.

Debian supports the package certbot-dns-gandi with apt, but only the next versions Debian Bookworm (testing) and Debian Sid (unstable) support a decent version (1.4.2 at this time): https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3-certbot-dns-gandi. And the installation via pip for certbot and certbot-dns-gandi should work without any issue.

@obynio We may have to close the issue as we did not get any reply from @Louis-d-C in one year.

[Louis-d-C]

@HLFH

I gave up on the wildcard certificate and did every subdomain I needed manually because I could not find out how to make it work. As of now, I don't need an infinite number of certificates so I can't really spend more time trying to fix this issue.

The version of certbot was 1.20.0, certbot-plugin-gandi was version 1.3.2 and the os was debian 10.

[dvinz]

Hi,
Old syntax works for me.
debian 10.13
certbot 0.31.0
certbot-dns-ovh 0.31.0
certbot-nginx 0.31.0
certbot-plugin-gandi 1.2.5

root@toto:~#certbot certonly --authenticator dns-gandi --dns-gandi-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/gandi/gandi.ini -d domain.fr -d \*.domain.fr --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
usage:
  certbot [SUBCOMMAND] [options] [-d DOMAIN] [-d DOMAIN] ...

Certbot can obtain and install HTTPS/TLS/SSL certificates.  By default,
it will attempt to use a webserver both for obtaining and installing the
certificate.
certbot: error: unrecognized arguments: --dns-gandi-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/gandi/gandi.ini

With old syntax =

root@toto:~#certbot certonly -a certbot-plugin-gandi:dns --certbot-plugin-gandi:dns-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/gandi/gandi.ini -d domain.fr -d \*.domain.fr
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator certbot-plugin-gandi:dns, Installer None
Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
dns-01 challenge for domain.fr
dns-01 challenge for domain.fr
Waiting 10 seconds for DNS changes to propagate
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges

IMPORTANT NOTES:
 - Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved

[Alexandero89]

@Louis-d-C Which package managers do you use to get this error (pip or debian)?

I have the same error with debian packages (Debian GNU/Linux 11 - bullseye) but it works in a virtualenv and pip packages:

sudo apt install python3-venv
python3 -m venv venv
./venv/bin/pip install certbot
./venv/bin/pip install certbot-plugin-gandi
sudo ./venv/bin/certbot certonly --authenticator dns-gandi --dns-gandi-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/gandi.ini -d testdns.domain.tld

In case it helps, the versions are different:
lib debian pip
certbot 1.12.0 1.22.0
certbot-plugin-gandi 1.2.5-3 1.3.2

This one fixed it for me.
Create its own venv and only install these two packages.
And then tell cron to use this venv.