Hokie Stalker

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Hokie Stalker is the name given by Virginia Tech students 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 Hokie Stalker

$ 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

Privacy Settings

Managing via MyVT

Privacy settings can be controlled from MyVT: [1].

Computer Labs

In order to login at the Math Emporium, public visibility of ones PID was once required. This was fixed sometime in 2009 but as of fall 2009, to log in to OSX from computers in the Torgersen computer labs, listing your PID as public is still necessary.

See Also

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