In fact, MIT's user search is just a front end for the finger command: http://web.mit.edu/search.html http://web.mit.edu/search.html And as mentioned elsewher

In fact, MIT's user search is just a front end for the finger command: http://web.mit.edu/search.html http://web.mit.edu/search.html And as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it does raise some privacy concerns. For example: http://amap.mit.edu/ http://amap.mit.edu/