# hg-ssh

## restricted ssh login shell for Mercurial

Author: | Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
Organization: | Mercurial
Manual section: | 8
Manual group: | Mercurial Manual

Contents

- Synopsis
- Description
- Bugs
- See Also
- Author
- Resources
- Copying

# Synopsis

hg-ssh repositories...

# Description

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/*"

# Bugs

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

# See Also

hg(1)

# Author

Written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

# 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 Matt Mackall. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.