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## NAME
       hg-ssh - restricted ssh login shell for Mercurial

## 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/sshd/8/markdown): 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/hg/1/markdown)

## AUTHOR
       Written by Olivia Mackall <<olivia@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 Olivia Mackall.  Free use of this software is granted under the terms
       of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

## AUTHOR
       Thomas Arendsen Hein <<thomas@intevation.de>>

       Organization: Mercurial




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