:pserver: with system authentication

One of the simplest ways to setup the :pserver:-based repository is with system authentication. The checkpassword password-checking program is used for that purpose.

checkpassword checks the supplied username and password against the UNIX system users database (looking into `/etc/passwd', or into `/etc/shadow'). If the password is correct, it switches the user id to the provided username, and executes the CVS server binary itself. Thus, the CVS server runs as the individual system user, with all the appropriate priviliges granted.

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