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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] [[User:mutantmonkey|mutantmonkey]] has hacked up a [https://github.com/mutantmonkey/hokiestalker/blob/master/hs.py Python script that works as a replacement].
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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]
* [[ud:Hokie Stalker|Urban Dictionary Hokie Stalker entry]]
