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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 for the search. See the [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html Mozilla article on "Smart Keywords"]. This can be handy for databases like [http://search.vt.edu/search/people.html Virginia Tech People Search] (colloquially known as "Hokie Stalker"; to suppress information visit [https://my.vt.edu/navigate.jsp?channel=attribute-suppression Profile Visibility] after logging in via [https://auth.vt.edu/login?service=https://my.vt.edu/Login CAS]) and the library database [http://addison.vt.edu/ Addison].

===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].

=Privacy Settings=<pre>==Managing via MyVT==$ sudo apt-get install python3-lxmlPrivacy settings can be controlled from MyVT: [$ git clone https://authgithub.com/mutantmonkey/hokiestalker.vtgit$ .edu/login?service=https%3A%2F%2Fmyhokiestalker/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%2FLogin%3FuP_fname%3Dattribute-suppression].</pre>

==Computer Labs==<!--In order The Virginia Tech finger server hooks into the same database as the web-based people search. Access to login at the it using [[Math Emporiumnetcat]]is trivial:<pre>$ echo charles steger | nc finger.vt.edu 79OpenLDAP Finger Service...1 exact match found for "charles steger":"808122, public visibility People" Also Known As: Charles W Steger Charles W. Steger Title: President and Prof. of ones PID was once requiredArch. This was fixed sometime in 2009 but as Department: President - Admin. Department Number: 043100 Work Address: Office of fall 2009, to log in to OSX from computers in the [[Torgersen computer labs]]President 210 Burruss Hall Blacksburg, listing your PID as public is still necessaryVA 24061 Mail Stop: 0131 Work Phone: 5402316231 E-Mail Address: president@vt.edu</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===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. ==See Also==

==Links==

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