[Gllug] Physical Access Control

[Richard Hall]

It was actually a company called CEM but they were the same, using M$ 
clients connecting to a Solaris for x86 back end.   It is the back end 
that needs to be reliable (something I don't consider windows to be) 
with a minimalistic install therefor reducing the likelyhood of any 
vulnerable packages.   Windows is to monlithic to trim down to a bare 
bones system.

Rich

D wrote:

> I guess the one Unix solution your talking of is Casi-Rusco but read 
> it carefully and your see for the client software they use a m$ OS! Grr!
> Seems theres a whole in the market waiting to be exploited then.
>  
> D!
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Richard Hall <mailto:r.j.hall at rhul.ac.uk>
>     To: gllug at linux.co.uk <mailto:gllug at linux.co.uk>
>     Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 6:19 PM
>     Subject: Re: [Gllug] Physical Access Control
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>     Grosvenor binned the project apparently after a lack of interest.
>
>     It's strange I would of thought that Linux and embedded linux
>     would be ideal platforms for physical access control solutions but
>     everyone seems to use Windows OS for it.   I must have spoken to
>     15 different companies but I have only found one so far that
>     offers a Unix solution and that is for airports (not just 5
>     doors).   If I wasn't so crap at programming I'd start a project
>     myself.
>
>     Rich
>
>     D wrote:
>
>>Grovenor was working on Janus for unix OS's at one point, dont know how that
>>got on as at the time they saked a load of there programmers for
>>incompitance : ).
>>
>>Dont have a link handy right now.
>>
>>D!
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Richard Hall" <r.j.hall at rhul.ac.uk>
>>To: "GLLUG" <gllug at linux.co.uk>
>>Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 2:23 PM
>>Subject: [Gllug] Physical Access Control
>>
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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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>>>Richard Hall
>>>Systems Administrator
>>>Information Security Group
>>>Royal Holloway, University of London
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>>>Fax: +44 (0)1784 430766
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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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Royal Holloway, University of London
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