hg-ssh(8)

hg-ssh8

Restricted ssh login shell for mercurial

Usage

hg-ssh repositories ...

Overview

hg-ssh is a wrapper for ssh access to a limited set of mercurial repos.

To be used in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys with the "command" option, see sshd(8): command="hg-ssh path/to/repo1 /path/to/repo2 ~/repo3 ~user/repo4" ssh-dss ... (probably together with these other useful options: no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding)

This allows pull/push over ssh from/to the repositories given as arguments.

If all your repositories are subdirectories of a common directory, you can allow shorter paths with: command="cd path/to/my/repositories && hg-ssh repo1 subdir/repo2"

You can use pattern matching of your normal shell, e.g.: command="cd repos && hg-ssh user/thomas/* projects/{mercurial,foo}"

You can also add a --read-only flag to allow read-only access to a key, e.g.: command="hg-ssh --read-only repos/*"

Resources

Main Web Site: https://mercurial-scm.org/

Source code repository: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg

Mailing list: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial/

Copying

Copyright (C) 2005-2016 Olivia Mackall. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.0–11
  2. 12–Arch

Bugs

Probably lots, please post them to the mailing list (see Resources below) when you find them.

Author

Written by Olivia Mackall <[email protected]>

Author

Thomas Arendsen Hein <[email protected]>

Organization: Mercurial

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