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+# mercurial-server
+
+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.
+It was written by Paul Crowley at LShift Ltd.
+
+
+## Installing
+
+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.
+
+The best way to install mercurial-server is using your package management
+system - there are pre-built .deb files on the website. However, there is
+some provision for installing it directly. On Debian based systems such as
+Ubuntu, use the command
+
+ sudo make setup-adduser
+
+On Red Hat and possibly other variants of Unix, try
+
+ sudo make setup-useradd
+
+See doc/manual.docbook for the rest of the documentation.
+
+
+## License
+
+Copyright (C) 2008-2012 LShift Ltd.
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+ with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+
+## More info
+
+Please see [the website] (http://www.lshift.net/mercurial-server.html) or
+[contact us] (mailto:opensource@lshift.net).