Update README, man page

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@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ sudo ln -sf /opt/signal-cli-"${VERSION}"/bin/signal-cli /usr/local/bin/
 
 usage: signal-cli [-h] [-v] [--config CONFIG] [-u USERNAME | --dbus | --dbus-system] {link,addDevice,listDevices,removeDevice,register,verify,send,quitGroup,updateGroup,listIdentities,trust,receive,daemon} ...
 
+See also: [man page in asciidoc format](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/man/signal-cli.1.txt)
+
+The USERNAME (your phone number) must include the country calling code, i.e. the number must start with a "+" sign. (See [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes) for a list of all country codes.
+
 * Register a number (with SMS verification)
 
         signal-cli -u USERNAME register
@@ -105,6 +109,12 @@ usage: signal-cli [-h] [-v] [--config CONFIG] [-u USERNAME | --dbus | --dbus-sys
 
           signal-cli -u USERNAME trust -a NUMBER
 
+* Set configuration directory
+
+          signal-cli --config=/home/other_user/.config/signal
+
+      This is particularily useful in the case, when you would like to run the signal-cli tool as a different user as the one, that was used to register the account. You should make sure, that the caller has full read/write access to the given directory.
+        
 ## DBus service
 
 signal-cli can run in daemon mode and provides an experimental dbus interface.
@@ -124,6 +134,9 @@ To run on the system bus you need to take some additional steps.
 It’s advisable to run signal-cli as a separate unix user, the following steps assume you created a user named *signal-cli*.
 These steps, executed as root, should work on all distributions using systemd.
 
+Mind the fact that signal.service executes the signal-cli with "--config /var/lib/signal-cli".
+If you registered with user signal-cli, remove the config option.
+
 ```bash
 cp data/org.asamk.Signal.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
 cp data/org.asamk.Signal.service /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/
@@ -134,7 +147,7 @@ systemctl enable signal.service
 systemctl reload dbus.service
 ```
 
-Then just execute the send command from above, the service will be autostarted by dbus the first time it is requested.
+Make sure to use "--dbus-system" with the send command, the service will be autostarted by dbus the first time it is requested.
 
 ## Storage