Mercurial-server add permissions to my repository

Question

I'm using mercurial-server to manage my repositories in the enterprise server. I created a repository for each user and I wanted each of them could give access to another, ie, each user would have access control to your projects in your repository. But in mercurial-server documentation I see that only administrators can give that kind of access.

Is that way how it works or gives to circumvent it somehow through the mercurial-server or even own mercurial(hg)?

Answer 1

If you want to delegate the access rights management to your users, they would need to have access to the /hgadmin repository and they should be able to modify the /hgadmin/access.conf file where the fine grained access control is located.

To my knowledge there is no way (yet) to use Mercurial-server to have silos of access-control, where a user could grant access to his/her own repository but not to other's repositories. However you should be able to develop such an extension to the system: with a hook that would extract relevant rights from, e.g., <user-repo>/admin/access.conf and copy them in a zone where another hook or a cron would select only lines concerning the <user-repo> zone (with a sed or perl or whatever you'd like), then update the real access.conf file, and finally commit and push it.

Hope it'll help.