Registration

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You will need a spare phone number to use for registration, DO NOT USE YOUR CURRENT MOBILE PHONE NUMBER! SIP numbers are fine, just use --voice for verification code.

If the signal-cli user has been created by the package installation script, you’ll need to adjust th commands to include --config /var/lib/signal-cli!

Example (see CAPTCHA):

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Please run all commands as signal-cli user when in standalone mode. Not necessary for docker installation.

sudo -u signal-cli -H signal-cli --config /var/lib/signal-cli -a ACCOUNT register --voice --captcha <CAPTCHA>
sudo -u signal-cli -H signal-cli --config /var/lib/signal-cli -a ACCOUNT verify <VERIFICATION CODE>

For more details, see signal-cli.