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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>
$ echo charles steger | nc finger.vt.edu 79
</pre>
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 <code>hs</code>.<pre># echo -e '#!/bin/bash\n\necho $* | nc finger.vt.edu 79' > /usr/local/bin/hs# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hs</pre>--> ==Privacy Settings=====Managing via MyVT===Privacy settings can be controlled from 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%3A%2F%2Fmy://my.vt.edu%2FLogin%3FuP_fname%3Dattribute-suppression/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, to log in to OSX from computers in the [[Torgersen computer labs]], listing your PID as public is still necessary.
==See Also==
* [[Searching]]
==Links==
* [http://search.vt.edu/search/people.html Virginia Tech | People Search]
