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