[Gllug] Physical Access Control
Richard Hall
r.j.hall at rhul.ac.uk
Fri Nov 8 14:23:27 UTC 2002
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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Richard Hall
Systems Administrator
Information Security Group
Royal Holloway, University of London
Tel: +44 (0)1784 44 3111
Fax: +44 (0)1784 430766
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