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.
The Virginia Tech finger server hooks into the same database as the web-based people search. Access to it using netcat is trivial:
$ echo charles steger | nc finger.vt.edu 79
OpenLDAP Finger Service...
1 exact match found for "charles steger":
"808122, People"
Also Known As:
Charles W Steger
Charles W. Steger
Title:
President and Prof. of Arch.
Department:
President - Admin.
Department Number:
043100
Work Address:
Office of the President
210 Burruss Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Mail Stop:
0131
Work Phone:
5402316231
E-Mail Address:
president@vt.edu
It might be useful to turn this one-liner into a script if you need to lookup professor room numbers, email addresses, etc. on a regular basis. To do so, follow the steps below to create a script that can be called by typing hs.
# echo -e '#!/bin/bash\n\necho $* | nc finger.vt.edu 79' > /usr/local/bin/hs # chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hs
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.