--- a/src/hg-ssh	Mon Oct 12 16:04:07 2009 +0100
+++ b/src/hg-ssh	Mon Oct 12 16:25:02 2009 +0100
@@ -34,13 +34,14 @@
 from mercurial import dispatch
 
 import sys, os, os.path
+import base64
 from mercurialserver import ruleset, paths
 
 def fail(message):
     sys.stderr.write("mercurial-server: %s\n" % message)
     sys.exit(-1)
 
-def checkpath(path)
+def checkpath(path):
     path = os.path.dirname(path)
     if path == "":
         return
@@ -65,13 +66,16 @@
 #logfile = open("/tmp/hg-ssh.%d.txt" % os.getpid(), "w")
 #logfile.write("Started: %s\n" % sys.argv)
 
-if len(sys.argv) != 2:
+paths.setExePath()
+
+if len(sys.argv) == 3 and sys.argv[1] == "--base64":
+    ruleset.rules.set(user = base64.b64decode(sys.argv[2]))
+elif len(sys.argv) == 2:
+    ruleset.rules.set(user = sys.argv[1])
+else:
     fail("hg-ssh wrongly called, is authorized_keys corrupt? (%s)" 
         % sys.argv)
 
-paths.setExePath()
-ruleset.rules.set(user = sys.argv[1])
-
 # Use a different hgrc for remote pulls - this way you can set
 # up access.py for everything at once without affecting local operations
 
@@ -89,7 +93,7 @@
 try:
     if cmd.startswith('hg -R ') and cmd.endswith(' serve --stdio'):
         repo = getrepo("read", cmd[6:-14])
-        if not os.path.isdir(repo + "/.hg")
+        if not os.path.isdir(repo + "/.hg"):
             fail("no such repository %s" % repo)
         dispatch.dispatch(['-R', repo, 'serve', '--stdio'])
     elif cmd.startswith('hg init '):