It also allows specific login shells to indicate the status of accounts, so that, for example, users with locked accounts can be denied access to e-mail services. Source is available as a compressed tar file. It then sends a complaint to the appropriate abuse address. It also collects all of the messages that it processes and logs its activity. It keeps a history of complaints so that it will not send duplicate complaint messages within a specified time period.
Source is available as a compressed tar file.
The basic idea is that the CGI script runs as the user and from the user's home directory, with this same environment as if the user had logged in to the machine. It receives the web form on standard input just like a normal CGI script, and of course standard output goes back to the user's web browser. There are several additional environment variables that the CGI script can use to obtain information about the user. Source is available as a compressed tar file. This is inefficient, and can be quite slow if the group map is large.