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Cheers. Index security seemed very helpful and I have a meeting with them
this week now. The guy I spoke to hadn't heard of Linux. It looks like
I'm going to have to bite the bullet and go to the dark side for this one
particular service.<br>
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Rich<br>
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<pre wrap="">Has anyone heard of a Physical Access Control system that runs on Linux?
All of the commercial ones either seem to be using windows as the OS
for the servers which I think is a ridiculous choice for a system that
needs to be reliably up 99.999% of the time and not rebooted every
couple of days for hot fix installations. The next step up seems to be
airport grade systems which run on Solaris and probably cost millions.
I need some method of controlling access to several rooms in several
locations on a 100 acre campus using smart/swipe cards or biometrics
authentication of some kind over ethernet to a central server. I don't
mind paying for a commercial solution but I cant afford the same as an
airport.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I used to do these a lot NT or W2K seemed to be the only option for
smaller setups. Try indexsecurity.co.uk they are probabably going to
tell you Microsoft but it is worth a try. BTW George this was the
name of the co. I was trying to remember. Last time I used them about 2
years ago they were reasonably priced and competent.
Peace Jim
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Royal Holloway, University of London
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