mautrix-docs/bridges/general/double-puppeting.md

Double puppeting

You can replace the Matrix ghost of your remote account with your Matrix account. When you do so, messages that you send from other clients will be sent from your Matrix account instead of the default ghost user.

Also, in servers that don't support MSC2409 (i.e. Synapse before v1.22), it is the only way to enable bridging of ephemeral events, such as presence, typing notifications and read receipts. If you want to use MSC2409 for ephemeral events, make sure appservice -> ephemeral_events is set to true in the bridge config and that the registration file has the appropriate flags too (you can regenerate the registration after updating the bridge config).

Automatically

Instead of requiring everyone to manually enable double puppeting, you can give the bridge access to log in on its own. This makes the process much smoother for users, and removes problems if the access token getting invalidated, as the bridge can simply automatically relogin.

0. Set up matrix-synapse-shared-secret-auth on your Synapse.
   • Make sure you set m_login_password_setup_enabled to true in the config.
1. Add the login shared secret to bridge → login_shared_secret_map in the config file under the correct server name.
   • In mautrix-imessage and in past versions of other bridges, the field is called login_shared_secret, as double puppeting was only supported for local users.
2. The bridge will now automatically enable double puppeting for all local users when they log into the bridge.

Manually

Double puppeting can only be enabled after logging into the bridge. As with the normal login, you must do this in a private chat with the bridge bot.

N.B. This method is not supported in mautrix-imessage, as it does not currently support any commands.

1. Log in on the homeserver to get an access token, for example with the command

   $ curl -XPOST -d '{"type":"m.login.password","identifier":{"type": "m.id.user", "user": "example"},"password":"wordpass","initial_device_display_name":"a fancy bridge"}' https://example.com/_matrix/client/r0/login
   

2. Send login-matrix <access token> to the bridge bot. For the Telegram bridge, send login-matrix without the access token, then send the access token in a separate message.
3. After logging in, the default Matrix ghost of your remote account should leave rooms and your account should join all rooms the ghost was in automatically.