[Gllug] Physical Access Control

[Richard Hall]

Cheers.   Index security seemed very helpful and I have a meeting with 
them this week now.   The guy I spoke to hadn't heard of Linux.   It 
looks like I'm going to have to bite the bullet and go to the dark side 
for this one particular service.

Rich

Jim Bailey wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:23:27PM +0000, Richard Hall wrote:
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>>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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>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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Royal Holloway, University of London
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