We no longer ask users to create Matrix user accounts for these bots:
- Postmoogle
- Honoroit
- Reminder Bot
Other bots and services (matrix-registration-bot, maubot, mjolnir,
Dimension, etc.) require an Access Token to run (not a password),
so this new role doesn't help for them.
It does help for the above bots though, and for defining your own
"initial user accounts" in the `matrix_user_creator_users_additional`
variable.
@ -7,21 +7,6 @@ It's a bot you can use to setup **your own helpdesk on matrix**
See the project's [documentation](https://gitlab.com/etke.cc/honoroit#how-it-looks-like) to learn what it does with screenshots and why it might be useful to you.
## Registering the bot user
By default, the playbook will set up the bot with a username like this: `@honoroit:DOMAIN`.
(to use a different username, adjust the `matrix_bot_honoroit_login` variable).
You **need to register the bot user manually** before setting up the bot. You can use the playbook to [register a new user](registering-users.md):
- the `ensure-matrix-users-created` playbook tag makes the playbook automatically create the bot's user account
- if you change the bot password (`matrix_bot_honoroit_password` in your `vars.yml` file) subsequently, the bot user's credentials on the homeserver won't be updated automatically. If you'd like to change the bot user's password, use a tool like [synapse-admin](configuring-playbook-synapse-admin.md) to change it, and then update `matrix_bot_honoroit_password` to let the bot know its new password
@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ By default, the playbook will set use the bot with a username like this: `@bot.m
(to use a different username, adjust the `matrix_bot_matrix_registration_bot_matrix_user_id_localpart` variable).
You **need to register the bot user manually** before setting up the bot. You can use the playbook to [register a new user](registering-users.md):
For [other bots supported by the playbook](configuring-playbook.md#bots), Matrix bot user accounts are created and put to use automatically. For `matrix-registration-bot`, however, this is not the case - you **need to register the bot user manually** before setting up the bot. You can use the playbook to [register a new user](registering-users.md):
- the `ensure-matrix-users-created` playbook tag makes the playbook automatically create the bot's user account
- if you change the bot password (`matrix_bot_matrix_reminder_bot_matrix_user_password` in your `vars.yml` file) subsequently, the bot user's credentials on the homeserver won't be updated automatically. If you'd like to change the bot user's password, use a tool like [synapse-admin](configuring-playbook-synapse-admin.md) to change it, and then update `matrix_bot_matrix_reminder_bot_matrix_user_password` to let the bot know its new password
- the `ensure-matrix-users-created` playbook tag makes the playbook automatically create the bot's user account
- if you change the bot password (`matrix_bot_postmoogle_password` in your `vars.yml` file) subsequently, the bot user's credentials on the homeserver won't be updated automatically. If you'd like to change the bot user's password, use a tool like [synapse-admin](configuring-playbook-synapse-admin.md) to change it, and then update `matrix_bot_postmoogle_password` to let the bot know its new password
If you've [configured your DNS](configuring-dns.md) and have [configured the playbook](configuring-playbook.md), you can start the installation procedure.
The Ansible playbook's tasks are tagged, so that certain parts of the Ansible playbook can be run without running all other tasks.
The general command syntax is: `ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=COMMA_SEPARATED_TAGS_GO_HERE`
Here are some playbook tags that you should be familiar with:
- `setup-all` - runs all setup tasks for all components, but does not start/restart services
- `setup-SERVICE` (e.g. `setup-bot-postmoogle`) - runs the setup tasks only for a given role, but does not start/restart services. You can discover these additional tags in each role (`roles/*/main.yml`). Running per-component setup tasks is **not recommended**, as components sometimes depend on each other and running just the setup tasks for a given component may not be enough. For example, setting up the [mautrix-telegram bridge](configuring-playbook-bridge-mautrix-telegram.md), in addition to the `setup-mautrix-telegram` tag, requires database changes (the `setup-postgres` tag) as well as reverse-proxy changes (the `setup-nginx-proxy` tag).
- `start` - starts all systemd services and makes them start automatically in the future
- `stop` - stops all systemd services
- `ensure-matrix-users-created` - a special tag which ensures that all special users needed by the playbook (for bots, etc.) are created
`setup-*` tags **do not start services** automatically, because you may wish to do things before starting services, such as importing a database dump, restoring data from another server, etc.
## 1. Installing Matrix
If you **don't** use SSH keys for authentication, but rather a regular password, you may need to add `--ask-pass` to the all Ansible commands
If you **do** use SSH keys for authentication, **and** use a non-root user to *become* root (sudo), you may need to add `-K` (`--ask-become-pass`) to all Ansible commands
There 2 ways to start the installation process - depending on whether you're [Installing a brand new server (without importing data)](#installing-a-brand-new-server-without-importing-data) or [Installing a server into which you'll import old data](#installing-a-server-into-which-youll-import-old-data).
### Installing a brand new server (without importing data)
If this is **a brand new** Matrix server and you **won't be importing old data into it**, run all these tags:
The above command **doesn't start any services just yet** (another step does this later - below). Feel free to **re-run this setup command any time** you think something is off with the server configuration.
This will do a full installation and start all Matrix services.
Proceed to [Maintaining your setup in the future](#2-maintaining-your-setup-in-the-future) and [Finalize the installation](#3-finalize-the-installation)
**Notes**:
- if you **don't** use SSH keys for authentication, but rather a regular password, you may need to add `--ask-pass` to the above (and all other) Ansible commands.
- if you **do** use SSH keys for authentication, **and** use a non-root user to *become* root (sudo), you may need to add `-K` (`--ask-become-pass`) to the above (and all other) Ansible commands.
### Installing a server into which you'll import old data
If you will be importing data into your newly created Matrix server, install it, but **do not** start its services just yet.
Starting its services or messing with its database now will affect your data import later on.
To do the installation **without** starting services, run only the `setup-all` tag:
Proceed to [Maintaining your setup in the future](#2-maintaining-your-setup-in-the-future) and [Finalize the installation](#3-finalize-the-installation)
## 2. Maintaining your setup in the future
Feel free to **re-run the setup command any time** you think something is off with the server configuration. Ansible will take your configuration and update your server to match.
## 3. Finalize the installation
Now that services are running, you need to **finalize the installation process** (required for federation to work!) by [Configuring Service Discovery via .well-known](configuring-well-known.md).
## 5. Things to do next
## 4. Things to do next
After you have started the services and **finalized the installation process** (required for federation to work!) by [Configuring Service Discovery via .well-known](configuring-well-known.md), you can:
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