{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/issues/75","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/issues/75/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/issues/75/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/issues/75/events","html_url":"https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/issues/75","id":112618680,"number":75,"title":"I can't easily renew certificate for any user. What's the point of \"EASY\" in the name of this product?","user":{"login":"mailinglists35","id":2054302,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2054302?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35","html_url":"https://github.com/mailinglists35","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":9,"created_at":"2015-10-21T15:43:00Z","updated_at":"2015-10-28T15:18:38Z","closed_at":"2015-10-28T11:51:45Z","body":"advice in issue #40 is to modify openssl.conf and index.txt.attr and index.attr.old\r\n\r\nwhy me as an end-user of the product I have to resort to these hacks instead of having a renew-cert tool available?\r\n\r\nwhy does openssl natively allow renewing a certificate using existing key while \"easy\" rsa makes it anyway BUT \"EASY\" this process?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/issues/comments/151878803","html_url":"https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/issues/75#issuecomment-151878803","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/issues/75","id":151878803,"user":{"login":"mailinglists35","id":2054302,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2054302?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35","html_url":"https://github.com/mailinglists35","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mailinglists35/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-28T15:18:38Z","updated_at":"2015-10-28T15:18:38Z","body":"@ecrist can you describe an **EASY** way to give a person a new certificate before the old one expires, without modifying anything in the configuration, just by using default easy-rsa package settings and reading it's documentation that **NOWHERE** says anything about how to renew a certificate?\r\n\r\nwhy did you close this issue, as this is about an **EASY** way to perform the mentioned action? this issue is not about `unique_subject`!"}}