[Gllug] Physical Access Control

[Richard Hall]

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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