[Gllug] Physical Access Control

[George F.Saxby]

On Friday 08 November 2002  2:23 pm, you 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.
Richard ,
 If you find a linux system let us know I have the same problem on our 3 
sites in Richmond. You have great place to work, its where I went for by BSc 
in Computing science.
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               George F. Saxby
     

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