[Gllug] Physical Access Control

[D]

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


> 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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