Finding out someone's Athena username
To find someone's Athena username if you know their real name, you can
try querying the MIT directory, using "finger" at the athena% prompt:
finger lastname@mit
finger firstname_lastname@mit
finger firstname_initial_lastname@mit
These will give you information from the MIT directory. If you get more
than one returned entry, like:
name: Schiller, Jeffrey I
department: Network Services
title: Network Manager
alias: J-schiller
name: Schiller, Peter H
department: Brain & Cog Sci
title: D.w. Poitras Professor
alias: P-schiller
....
from fingering @mit, you can get more detailed information about a
specific user from the list by using the alias field. For example, if
you were interested in just Jeff's information, you could type the
following to get more detailed information, including Jeff's mail
address (if available):
finger j-schiller@mit
Help about the on-line directory is available by typing "finger help@mit".
Note however, that some entries in the directory may have a different
e-mail address, such as one for Lincoln Labs (@ll.mit.edu). In that
case, to find their username, you must search the LDAP directory:
athena% athrun consult ldaps "firstname lastname" uid
Example:
athena%athrun consult ldaps "Joe A User" uid
dn: cn=Joe A Test User+employeeNumber=d5c9bff6b4c9c931ca743160d8a64204,ou=affiliates,dc=mit,dc=edu
ufn: Joe A Test User + d5c9bff6b4c9c931ca743160d8a64204, affiliates, mit.edu
uid: joeuser
And the "uid" is the person's username, in this case "joeuser".
Last Updated: $Date: 2007/11/15 17:39:46 $
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