how to setup a user with readonly access to all repositories?

[Mads Kiilerich]

Christophe Furmaniak wrote, On 01/09/2011 02:21 PM:
> Hi,
>
> I'd need to setup a special user with readonly access to all my 
> repositories (this need comes from a context of continuous integration 
> with a big (>300) number of repositories and a will to simplify the 
> config).
>
> There is a simple way to do that, add my user (hgreadonly) to the 
> allow_read list for each repo.
> I'd like to do it without having to setup this special user for each 
> repository.

You can perhaps put that configuration in the apache users .hgrc  - or 
in the global configuration. See http://selenic.com/hg/help/config .

I assume all the repos are scripted somehow, so perhaps you could also 
simply tweak your scripts to set the right configuration for each repo.

%include directives can make it quite dynamic - see 
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html#syntax .

/Mads