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mercurial-server gives your developers remote read/write access to centralized Mercurial repositories using SSH public key authentication; it provides convenient and fine-grained key management and access control. 
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http://www.lshift.net/mercurial-server.html
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Copyright (C) 2008-2009 LShift Ltd.
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    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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    (at your option) any later version.
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    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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    GNU General Public License for more details.
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    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
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    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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Though mercurial-server is currently targeted at Debian-based systems such as Ubuntu, other users have reported success getting it running on other Unix-based systems such as Red Hat. Running it on a non-Unix system such as Windows is not supported. You will need root privileges to install it. 
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The best way to install mercurial-server is using your package management system.  However, there is some provision for installing it directly.  On Debian based systems such as Ubuntu, use the command
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    sudo make setup-adduser
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On Red Hat and possibly other variants of Unix, try
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    sudo make setup-useradd
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See doc/manual.docbook for the rest of the documentation.
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