diff --git a/mercurial/rewriteutil.py b/mercurial/rewriteutil.py
--- a/mercurial/rewriteutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/rewriteutil.py
@@ -16,9 +16,11 @@
     revset,
 )
 
-def precheck(repo, revs, action='rewrite'):
+def precheck(repo, revs, action='rewrite', allowotherusers=True):
     """check if revs can be rewritten
     action is used to control the error message.
+    allowotherusers can be passed as false if you want to disallow users to
+    obsolete someone else changesets
 
     Make sure this function is called after taking the lock.
     """
@@ -40,6 +42,13 @@
     if newunstable:
         raise error.Abort(_("cannot %s changeset with children") % action)
 
+    if not allowotherusers:
+        curuser = repo.ui.username()
+        for r in revs:
+            if repo[r].user() != curuser:
+                raise error.Abort(_("cannot obsolete %s changeset which is not"
+                                    " authored by you") % r)
+
 def disallowednewunstable(repo, revs):
     """Checks whether editing the revs will create new unstable changesets and
     are we allowed to create them.