The University
of Texas at Austin White Pages Directory is an LDAP-enabled, universally-available
directory published by Information
Technology Services that contains public information on current
students, faculty and staff.
Every effort has been made to make the contents of this Directory as
up-to-date as possible. However, keep in mind that the publishers cannot
and do not guarantee or assume responsibility for the following:
the complete accuracy
of all the information found in the directory,
the complete absence of errors or omissions,
the presence of any unintentional directory entries.
For more information about this directory, please read our Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQs) page which includes details about the
information, how it is obtained, and the implementation of this
service.
The contents of this Directory are copyrighted by The University of
Texas at Austin. By using the Directory, you agree that you will not
reproduce, sell, transfer, or modify any of the information found
in response to your search requests or use any such information for commercial
purposes, without the prior express written permission and license of
The University of Texas at Austin. Unauthorized use and/or abuse is subject
to criminal prosecution under both state and federal laws. See also the University's
copyright information.
This online directory service is provided by the University to facilitate
the research, teaching, learning, and service missions of the University
community. Solicitation on University computing and network resources
is prohibited by the Rules and Regulations of the University of Texas
Board of Regents. Accordingly, the contact information provided in this
online directory service may not be used for transmission and distribution
of unsolicited e-mail or other commercial purposes.
Faculty and staff information provided in the Directory is also based
upon publicly available information and comes from Human
Resource Services (HRS). Faculty and staff members
may request that some of their own information not be released by
the University. For more information, see Where
does the data come from? on the Frequently Asked Questions page.
Security features have been implemented to prevent "trawling" of
this Directory. These features may result in searching difficulties for
users, but are intended to protect the privacy of University students,
faculty, and staff.
OpenLDAP
2.2.x - An open source Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
directory server
Sun v440 servers with 4 1.2 GHz UltraSparc IIIi processors and 16GB
RAM each
Two machines serve as directory servers. Queries coming in from
the web gateway, finger gateway, and LDAP clients are balanced
across these two machines.
LDAP is the standard for Internet directories and provides applications
with a consistent view and access method. Standard LDAP schemas have
been used where possible. This directory is fully compliant with the
EduPerson v1.0 schema released by the Educause/Internet2 EduPerson Task
Force. This EduPerson schema is designed to facilitate collaborative
efforts across institutions of higher learning.
This Directory stores each person's record in a “flat and wide” schema
and not an organizational structure. Access Control Lists are used to
restrict access and visibility to records and attributes of students,
faculty and staff who have requested such restrictions. The information
in this Directory is updated only by an extract service from the Enterprise
Directory and contains only information approved for public release.
This version of the Directory service includes a major upgrade to the
internal directory software. Many things have been changed in the way
the Directory is configured. Please let us know of any difficulties you
encounter by sending e-mail to iadteam@lists.cc.utexas.edu.
There are a variety of methods to access the Directory. The most common is through our Web gateway. However, the Directory is also available via Finger and through the use of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
Web: http://www.utexas.edu/directory/
Finger: finger "john doe"@directory.utexas.edu
LDAP: various clients including e-mail clients
and browsers such as MS Internet Explorer and Netscape
The most basic way to perform a search is to type in a person’s
name, e-mail address or phone number in the search box and then hit the ‘Search’ button. Queries are not case-sensitive. The Directory
will attempt to match what you type with data that exists in the directory
and display a list of relevant results.
Use the "All of UT" option to search the entire UT Austin
directory. Because UT has a community of approximately 70,000 people,
you may get back too many matches or you may hit search limits. (Search
results are limited to 50 entries.) In those instances, you might try
to make your query more specific or restrict the scope covered by your
search to “Students” or “Faculty/Staff.”
Advanced Searches
The needs of most users will be met through a basic search. However,
advanced searches may also be performed allowing users to employ an array
of more sophisticated directory features.
Complex Searches
You can also create your own complex searches. The rules are as follows or just skip to the examples:
utexasEduPersonPrimaryOrgUnitName (organizational
unit - department or college)
Examples:
This would match names sounding like "jane doe". Note,
if there is a single attribute value assertion, then the outer '(' ')'
are not required. Also, the “sounds like” uses a phonetic
matching algorithm and may produce unexpected results.
This would search for all persons whose e-mail addresses started with "doe".
This would search for a freshman with "john" anywhere in
their name (it would match first name Johnathan and
last name Johnson).
This would search for someone whose last name is "Doe" and who has
a home phone number ending in "3241".
This would search for someone whose name starts with "Jim" or "James" and
is an "Accounting" major of some type.
Sometimes your search filter will not be detailed enough to get past the size
limit (remember, with 70,000 people at UT Austin, you need to be specific).
You may find the need to add additional distinguishing attributes to your
search. For example, if you are only looking for students, limit the scope
of your search to “Students.” It
is best to put your most specific attribute furthest to the left, and least
specific to furthest to right. Queries are evaluated left to right
(parentheses do affect ordering) and the database has a limited number of
hits it can store.
Pretty complicated huh? Well, it lets you ask some pretty complex questions.
Remember, you can always just type what you are looking for in the search
dialog and let the default filters attempt to find people for you.
When a "size limit exceeded" response is received from
a query, not all the search results have been returned to the user.
There are too many matches to return. Receiving this message should
be a user's cue to perform a more detailed search. However, users may
be unaware that this is their next step.
