Hokie Stalker

Virginia Tech People Search, People Finder, or, colloquially, Hokie Stalker, is a web search interface to the university directory.

Searching the University Directory

Searching with Firefox

Keyword searches can serve as handy shortcuts. In recent versions of Firefox, you can simply right-click in a search box and choose to add a keyword for the search. See the Mozilla article on "Smart Keywords".

Commandline People Search

Virginia Tech previously operated a finger server, but it was shut down on January 16th. [1] mutantmonkey has hacked up a Python script that works as a replacement.

$ sudo apt-get install python3-lxml
$ git clone https://github.com/mutantmonkey/hokiestalker.git
$ ./hokiestalker/hs.py charles steger
Name:               Charles W Steger
                    Charles W. Steger
UID:                808122
Department:         President - Admin.
Title:              President and Prof. of Arch.
Office:             Office of the President
                    210 Burruss Hall
                    Blacksburg, VA 24061
Mail Stop:          0131
Office Phone:       5402316231
Email Address:      president@vt.edu

Privacy Settings

Managing via MyVT

To suppress personal information visit MyVT profile visibility after logging in via the central authentication system.

Computer Labs

In order to login at the Math Emporium and on the Torg computer labs, public visibility of ones PID was once required. This was fixed sometime in 2009.

See Also

• Searching

Links

• Virginia Tech | People Search

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