hook failed: ACL problem with pushing to server

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 13:16 +0200, Thomas Kaspari wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> we are trying to restrict access to our present repositories and read 
> the tutorial "http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/AclExtension" and some 
> other websites. But we still have some trouble with pushing our local 
> commits to the running server of hg.

...

>      />>> *error: pretxnchangegroup.acl hook failed: acl: user "" not
>      allowed on "test.txt"*/

...

>      [web]
>      allow_push = *
>      push_ssl = false

...

>      [paths]
>      default = http://hg_server:8000/

This all points to you attempting to use 'hg serve' as your web server.
This won't work because 'hg serve' has no authentication support. You
need to use a "real" web server with a full authentication subsystem. If
you actually care about security enough to want ACLs, you really ought
to use SSL too.

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