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'''Virginia Tech People Search''', '''People Finder''', or, colloquially, '''Hokie Stalker''', is 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 People 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#finger_client_standalone_or_as_a_script][[User:mutantmonkey|mutantmonkey]] has hacked up a [https://github.com/mutantmonkey/hokiestalker/blob/master/hs. A new py Python script is in the that worksas a replacement].
<pre>
$ sudo apt-get install python3-lxml
$ git clone https://github.com/mutantmonkey/hokiestalker.git
$ ./hokiestalker/hs.py charles steger
Name: Charles W Steger
Charles W. Steger
UID: 808122
Department: President - Admin.
Title: President and Prof. of Arch.
Office: Office of the President
210 Burruss Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Mail Stop: 0131
Office Phone: 5402316231
Email Address: president@vt.edu
</pre>
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The Virginia Tech finger server hooks into the same database as the web-based people search. Access to it using [[netcat]] is trivial:
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# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hs
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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.
==See Also==
* [[Searching]]
==Links==
* [http://search.vt.edu/search/people.html Virginia Tech | People Search]
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