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How to get the email I entered on Proxmox VE setup in the shell?

Martin Braun

8/12/23, 1:24 PM

When I login to my Proxmox VE7 host, I'd like to get the email that I entered when I set up Proxmox on installation. Is it possible?

The idea is to automate certbot initialization non-interactively and I would rather use the email I entered previously automatically than asking for the email in my script again.

To clarify, I wish to get the email that I entered here within a shell script:

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1F987

8/12/23, 2:45 PM

I think you can find your installation email address here :

cat /etc/pve/user.cfg

To get the email address :

EMAIL=`cat /etc/pve/user.cfg | awk '{split($0,a,":"); print a[7]}'`
echo $EMAIL
# [email protected]

Tested on PVE6 and PVE7, but note I've only one user (root).

In the GUI, you can find it under Datacenter / Permissions / Users, double-click on your user, and voila !

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Martin Braun

8/12/23, 3:05 PM

This is exactly what I was looking for. :)

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Petr Schönmann

8/12/23, 1:59 PM

You can just copy "template" ( /etc/pve/priv/acme/default ) from another proxmox where LE cert is working, to /etc/pve/priv/acme/default and run order certificate.

pvenode acme cert order

I suggest to create mail something like [email protected] and have it in the template.

Im using this in ansible role. Get inspired :D

##################
#LETS ENCRYPT CERT
##################

- name: Create empty file /etc/pve/priv/acme/default - workaround for action below
  file:
    path: /etc/pve/priv/acme/default
    owner: root
    group: www-data
    mode: '0600'
    state: touch
  become: true
  tags:
    - hypervizor_proxmox_letsencrypt

- name: Copy template of LE CERT account - default
  template:
    src: lets_encrypt/le_account_default.j2
    dest: /etc/pve/priv/acme/default
    owner: root
    group: www-data
    mode: '0600'
  become: true
  tags:
    - hypervizor_proxmox_letsencrypt

- name: Create LETS ENCRYPT cert
  block:
    - name : Create LETS ENCRYPT cert
      shell: pvenode config set --acme domains="$(hostname -f|tr -d [:space:])" && pvenode acme cert order
  rescue:
    - name: Create LETS ENCRYPT cert failed, trying to rescue probably too much retries
      shell: pvenode config set --acme domains="$(hostname -f|tr -d [:space:])" && pvenode acme cert order --force
      ignore_errors: yes
  tags:
    - hypervizor_proxmox_letsencrypt

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Petr Schönmann

8/12/23, 3:19 PM

Okay. There is simple bash script `EMAIL=$(grep root@pam /etc/pve/user.cfg | cut -d: -f7)` Anyway, you can try acme built in with https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Certificate_Management instead installing certbot

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