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'''Virginia Tech People Search''', '''People Finder''', or, colloquially, '''Hokie Stalker''' , is the name given by Virginia Tech students 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 [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html Mozilla article on "Smart Keywords"].
===Commandline Hokie StalkerPeople Search===Virginia Tech previously operated a finger server, but it was shut down on January 16th. [http://www.middleware.vt.edu/doku.php?id=middleware:ed:edlite:finger] [[User:mutantmonkey|mutantmonkey]] has hacked up a [https://github.com/mutantmonkey/hokiestalker/blob/master/hs.py Python script that works as a replacement]. <pre>$ sudo apt-get install python3-lxml$ git clone https://github.com/mutantmonkey/hokiestalker.git$ ./hokiestalker/hs.py charles stegerName: Charles W Steger Charles W. StegerUID: 808122Department: President - Admin.Title: President and Prof. of Arch.Office: Office of the President 210 Burruss Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061Mail Stop: 0131Office Phone: 5402316231Email Address: president@vt.edu</pre> <!--
The Virginia Tech finger server hooks into the same database as the web-based people search. Access to it using [[netcat]] is trivial:
<pre>
# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hs
</pre>
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==Privacy Settings=====Managing via MyVT===
To suppress personal information visit [https://my.vt.edu/navigate.jsp?channel=attribute-suppression MyVT profile visibility] after logging in via the [https://auth.vt.edu/login?service=https://my.vt.edu/Login 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 but as of fall 2009, public visibility of the PID is still required to log in to OSX from computers in the [[Torgersen Hall|Torg]] [[computer labs]].
==See Also==
* [[Searching]]
==Links==
* [http://search.vt.edu/search/people.html Virginia Tech | People Search]
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