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It was actually a company called CEM but they were the same, using M$ clients
connecting to a Solaris for x86 back end. It is the back end that needs
to be reliable (something I don't consider windows to be) with a minimalistic
install therefor reducing the likelyhood of any vulnerable packages. Windows
is to monlithic to trim down to a bare bones system.<br>
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Rich<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I guess the one Unix solution your talking
of is Casi-Rusco but read it carefully and your see for the client software
they use a m$ OS! Grr!</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Seems theres a whole in the market waiting
to be exploited then.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">D!</font></div>
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Grosvenor binned the project apparently after a lack of interest.<br>
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It's strange I would of thought that Linux and embedded linux would be
ideal platforms for physical access control solutions but everyone seems
to use Windows OS for it. I must have spoken to 15 different companies
but I have only found one so far that offers a Unix solution and that
is for airports (not just 5 doors). If I wasn't so crap at programming
I'd start a project myself.<br>
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Rich<br>
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<pre wrap="">Grovenor was working on Janus for unix OS's at one point, dont know how that
got on as at the time they saked a load of there programmers for
incompitance : ).
Dont have a link handy right now.
D!
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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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