[Gllug] Physical Access Control

[Jim Bailey]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:23:27PM +0000, Richard Hall wrote:
> 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.
>
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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