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Update documentation of setting up double puppeting with bridges (#3837)
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* Move sections "Set up Double Puppeting" under "Usage" as subsections for mautrix bridges and appservice kakaotalk

The changes in this commit reflect double puppeting configuration flow. Since the docs claim that double puppeting can be set up after enabling bridges by chatting with the bridge's bot, the explanation about double puppeting may well be placed under "Usage" as subsection.

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Enabling Appservice Double Puppet is contrasted with "Enabling double puppeting by enabling the Shared Secret Auth service", therefore it can be just called as "this" if Shared Secret Auth service is not mentioned below.

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Setting up Appservice Kakaotalk bridging (optional)

The playbook can install and configure matrix-appservice-kakaotalk for you. matrix-appservice-kakaotalk is a bridge to Kakaotalk based on node-kakao (now unmaintained) and some mautrix-facebook code.

Note: there have been recent reports (~2022-09-16) that using this bridge may get your account banned.

See the project's documentation to learn what it does and why it might be useful to you.

Prerequisite (optional)

If you want to set up Double Puppeting (hint: you most likely do) for this bridge automatically, you need to have enabled Shared Secret Auth for this playbook.

For details about configuring Double Puppeting for this bridge, see the section below: Set up Double Puppeting

Adjusting the playbook configuration

To enable the bridge, add the following configuration to your inventory/host_vars/matrix.example.com/vars.yml file:

matrix_appservice_kakaotalk_enabled: true

You may optionally wish to add some Additional configuration, or to prepare for double-puppeting before the initial installation.

Additional configuration

There are some additional things you may wish to configure about the bridge.

Take a look at:

  • roles/custom/matrix-bridge-appservice-kakaotalk/defaults/main.yml for some variables that you can customize via your vars.yml file
  • roles/custom/matrix-bridge-appservice-kakaotalk/templates/config.yaml.j2 for the bridge's default configuration. You can override settings (even those that don't have dedicated playbook variables) using the matrix_appservice_kakaotalk_configuration_extension_yaml variable

Installing

After configuring the playbook, run the installation command:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-all,start

Usage

Start a chat with @kakaotalkbot:example.com (where example.com is your base domain, not the matrix. domain).

Send login --save EMAIL_OR_PHONE_NUMBER to the bridge bot to enable bridging for your Kakaotalk account. The --save flag may be omitted, if you'd rather not save your password.

💡 Set up Double Puppeting

After successfully enabling bridging, you may wish to set up Double Puppeting (hint: you most likely do).

To set it up, you have 2 ways of going about it.

Method 1: automatically, by enabling Shared Secret Auth

The bridge automatically performs Double Puppeting if Shared Secret Auth service is configured and enabled on the server for this playbook.

This is the recommended way of setting up Double Puppeting, as it's easier to accomplish, works for all your users automatically, and has less of a chance of breaking in the future.

Method 2: manually, by asking each user to provide a working access token

When using this method, each user that wishes to enable Double Puppeting needs to follow the following steps:

  • retrieve a Matrix access token for yourself. Refer to the documentation on how to do that.

  • send the access token to the bot. Example: login-matrix MATRIX_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE

  • make sure you don't log out the Appservice-Kakaotalk device some time in the future, as that would break the Double Puppeting feature