Where foo meets the bar

I managed to put together Redmine as issuetracker/wiki/younameit and mercurial-server which manages multi-user access to mercurial repository through ssh.

Redmine installation: redmine:redmine /var/lib/redmine/
Mercurial-server installation: hg:hg /home/hg/
I have put redmine into group hg.

The issue

When you add repository lets say /home/hg/vim/ to redmine, it does not recognise it. Not until you ofcourse make repository read/writeable for hg group (chmod 760). Now comes punchline; $HOME directory must be executable in order for Redmine to read repository info. In my case, I had to do "chmod 710 /home/hg/" in order to redmine to work.

Note that if you change write permissions to home user in linux, pubic keys ssh authentication will not work anymore for security reasons.