-# textsecure-cli
+# signal-cli
-textsecure-cli is a commandline interface for [libtextsecure-java](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libtextsecure-java). It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. However receiving messages currently only works with a patched libtextsecure-java, because libtextsecure-java [does not yet support registering for the websocket support](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libtextsecure-java/pull/5). For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls.
-It is primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events.
+signal-cli is a commandline interface for [libsignal-service-java](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java). It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. To be able to receive messages signal-cli uses a [patched libsignal-service-java](https://github.com/AsamK/libsignal-service-java), because libsignal-service-java [does not yet support registering for the websocket support](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java/pull/5) nor [provisioning as a slave device](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java/pull/21). For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls.
+It is primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events. For this use-case, it has a dbus interface, that can be used to send messages from any programming language that has dbus bindings.
+
+## Installation
+
+You can [build signal-cli](#building) yourself, or use the [provided binary files](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/latest), which should work on Linux, macOS and Windows. For Arch Linux there is also a [package in AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/signal-cli/). You need to have at least JRE 7 installed, to run signal-cli.
+
+### Install system-wide on Linux
+See [latest version](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases).
+```sh
+export VERSION=<latest version, format "x.y.z">
+wget https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/download/v"${VERSION}"/signal-cli-"${VERSION}".tar.gz
+sudo tar xf signal-cli-"${VERSION}".tar.gz -C /opt
+sudo ln -sf /opt/signal-cli-"${VERSION}"/bin/signal-cli /usr/local/bin/
+```
## Usage
-usage: textsecure-cli [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-v] {register,verify,send,quitGroup,updateGroup,receive} ...
+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)
- textsecure-cli -u USERNAME register
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME register
* Register a number (with voice verification)
- textsecure-cli -u USERNAME register -v
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME register -v
* Verify the number using the code received via SMS or voice
- textsecure-cli -u USERNAME verify CODE
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME verify CODE
* Send a message to one or more recipients
- textsecure-cli -u USERNAME send -m "This is a message" [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]] [-a [ATTACHMENT [ATTACHMENT ...]]]
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME send -m "This is a message" [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]] [-a [ATTACHMENT [ATTACHMENT ...]]]
* Pipe the message content from another process.
- uname -a | textsecure-cli -u USERNAME send [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]]
+ uname -a | signal-cli -u USERNAME send [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]]
+
+* Receive messages
+
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME receive
* Groups
* Create a group
- textsecure-cli -u USERNAME updateGroup -n "Group name" -m [MEMBER [MEMBER ...]]
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME updateGroup -n "Group name" -m [MEMBER [MEMBER ...]]
* Update a group
- textsecure-cli -u USERNAME updateGroup -g GROUP_ID -n "New group name"
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME updateGroup -g GROUP_ID -n "New group name" -a "AVATAR_IMAGE_FILE"
+
+ * Add member to a group
+
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME updateGroup -g GROUP_ID -m "NEW_MEMBER"
+
+ * Leave a group
+
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME quitGroup -g GROUP_ID
* Send a message to a group
- textsecure-cli -u USERNAME send -m "This is a message" -g GROUP_ID
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME send -m "This is a message" -g GROUP_ID
+
+* Linking other devices (Provisioning)
+
+ * Connect to another device
+
+ signal-cli link -n "optional device name"
+
+ This shows a "tsdevice:/…" link, if you want to connect to another signal-cli instance, you can just use this link. If you want to link to and Android device, create a QR code with the link (e.g. with [qrencode](https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/)) and scan that in the Signal Android app.
+
+ * Add another device
+
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME addDevice --uri "tsdevice:/…"
+
+ The "tsdevice:/…" link is the one shown by the new signal-cli instance or contained in the QR code shown in Signal-Desktop or similar apps.
+ Only the master device (that was registered directly, not linked) can add new devices.
+
+ * Manage linked devices
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME listDevices
+
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME removeDevice -d DEVICE_ID
+
+* Manage trusted keys
+
+ * View all known keys
+
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME listIdentities
+
+ * View known keys of one number
+
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME listIdentities -n NUMBER
+
+ * Trust new key, after having verified it
+
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME trust -v FINGER_PRINT NUMBER
+
+ * Trust new key, without having verified it. Only use this if you don't care about security
+
+ 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
-textsecure-cli can run in daemon mode and provides an experimental dbus interface.
+signal-cli can run in daemon mode and provides an experimental dbus interface.
For dbus support you need jni/unix-java.so installed on your system (Debian: libunixsocket-java ArchLinux: libmatthew-unix-java (AUR)).
* Run in daemon mode (dbus session bus)
- textsecure-cli -u USERNAME daemon
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME daemon
* Send a message via dbus
- textsecure-cli --dbus send -m "Message" [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]] [-a [ATTACHMENT [ATTACHMENT ...]]]
+ signal-cli --dbus send -m "Message" [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]] [-a [ATTACHMENT [ATTACHMENT ...]]]
### System bus
To run on the system bus you need to take some additional steps.
-It’s advisable to run textsecure-cli as a separate unix user, the following steps assume you created a user named *textsecure*.
+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.TextSecure.config /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
-cp data/org.asamk.TextSecure.service /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/
-cp data/textsecure.service /etc/systemd/system/
-sed -i -e "s|%dir%|<INSERT_INSTALL_PATH>|" -e "s|%number%|<INSERT_YOUR_NUMBER>|" /etc/systemd/system/textsecure.service
+cp data/org.asamk.Signal.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
+cp data/org.asamk.Signal.service /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/
+cp data/signal.service /etc/systemd/system/
+sed -i -e "s|%dir%|<INSERT_INSTALL_PATH>|" -e "s|%number%|<INSERT_YOUR_NUMBER>|" /etc/systemd/system/signal.service
systemctl daemon-reload
-systemctl enable textsecure.service
+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
The password and cryptographic keys are created when registering and stored in the current users home directory:
+ $HOME/.config/signal/data/
+
+For legacy users, the old config directory is used as a fallback:
+
$HOME/.config/textsecure/data/
## Building
This project uses [Gradle](http://gradle.org) for building and maintaining
-dependencies.
+dependencies. If you have a recent gradle version installed, you can replace `./gradlew` with `gradle` in the following steps.
1. Checkout the source somewhere on your filesystem with
- git clone https://github.com/AsamK/textsecure-cli.git
+ git clone https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli.git
2. Execute Gradle:
./gradlew build
-3. Create shell wrapper in *build/install/textsecure-cli/bin*:
+3. Create shell wrapper in *build/install/signal-cli/bin*:
./gradlew installDist
## License
-This project uses libtextsecure-java from Open Whisper Systems:
+This project uses libsignal-service-java from Open Whisper Systems:
-https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libtextsecure-java
+https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java
Licensed under the GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
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