crosstalk-cli

crosstalk-cli is a command-line interface for interacting with Crosstalk Swarm.

Security Notice

While Crosstalk is in the current alpha development stage, it's messages are being heavily logged for debugging purposes. If you create an account, please DO NOT provide a password that you cannot afford to make known to me.

Naturally, this will not be the case as Crosstalk matures.

Aside from the above consideration, your passwords are being securely one-way hashed using thousands of iterations of cryptographic one-way hash with individual and application-wide salt components.

Installation

npm install -g crosstalk-cli

Usage

~$ crosstalk --help

Crosstalk CLI
Valid commands are:

crosstalk signup
crosstalk activate
crosstalk account *
crosstalk login [ACCOUNT_NAME]
crosstalk logout
crosstalk version
crosstalk worker *

The * indicates nested commands. Typing crosstalk account or crosstalk worker will display help for commands. Furthermore, typing any command with --help flag, will display help information for that command.

Signup

~$ crosstalk signup
info:    Preparing to create a Crosstalk account...
help:    You can also provide ACCOUNT_NAME as the first param.
help:    crosstalk account create [ACCOUNT_NAME]
prompt: Enter account name: tristan
prompt: Enter your email address: [e-mail]
warn:    *** SECURITY NOTICE ***
warn:    While Crosstalk is in the current alpha development stage,
warn:    it's messages are being heavily logged for debugging purposes.
warn:    For now, please DO NOT provide a password that you cannot
warn:    make known to Crosstalk.
warn:    In the future, this will no longer be the case.
prompt: Enter your password:
prompt: Confirm your password:
info:    Creating account for tristan
info:    Account created for tristan
help:    See also:
help:    crosstalk login to login
help:    crosstalk logout to logout
info:    Crosstalk OK

Activation

While Crosstalk is in alpha preview, new accounts will need to be activated once you receive an activation token.

~$ crosstalk activate
help:    You can also provide ACCOUNT_NAME as the first param.
help:    crosstalk account activate [ACCOUNT_NAME] [ACTIVATION_TOKEN]
prompt: Enter account name: tristan
help:    You can also provide ACTIVATION_TOKEN as the second param.
help:    crosstalk account activate [ACCOUNT_NAME] [ACTIVATION_TOKEN]
prompt: Enter activation token: 5c7b6ef4dda8bbe73ced92797ae7...
info:    Activating tristan
info:    Account tristan is now active
help:    See also:
help:    crosstalk login to login
help:    crosstalk signup to signup
info:    Crosstalk OK

Sessions

After you login using crosstalk login [ACCOUNT_NAME] the Crosstalk session token will be saved in your configuration file specified by $CROSSTALK_CONFIG (if defined), otherwise ~/.crosstalk.config, under field crosstalkToken. When you logout via crosstalk logout, the token will be deleted.