[Gllug] Physical Access Control

[George F.Saxby]

On Saturday 09 November 2002  7:48 am, you wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:23:27PM +0000, Richard Hall wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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

 Thanks Jim will pass it over to the big boss

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