# `certbot.plugins.manual`

Manual authenticator plugin

class `certbot.plugins.manual.``Authenticator`(*args, **kwargs)

  Bases: `certbot.plugins.common.Plugin`

  Manual authenticator

  This plugin allows the user to perform the domain validation challenge(s) themselves. This either be done manually by the user or through shell scripts provided to Certbot.

  classmethod `add_parser_arguments`(add)

    Add plugin arguments to the CLI argument parser.

    NOTE: If some of your flags interact with others, you can use cli.report_config_interaction to register this to ensure values are correctly saved/overridable during renewal.

    Parameters: | add (callable) – Function that proxies calls to `argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument` prepending options with unique plugin name prefix.