`hg push` : abort: could not lock repository ... Permission denied

Question

I just set up several repositories on my Ubuntu server. I can pull from them just fine, but when I try:

hg push ssh://myserver//hg/repo

I get

abort: could not lock repository ... Permission denied

Answer 1

This is a permissions issue. The name being used to authenticate must either be the owner of all the files, or be in a group that has write permission to all the files.

Alternatively, you could set the permissions to 777, but that last 7 is a really bad idea, as then anyone who is able to gain any kind of access to the server could play havoc with the repositories.