[K12OSN] Biometrics Reader for Schools

[Bob McCaa]

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I have a Thinkpad T43p with the biometric reader and I fought with that
tutorial for about 2-3 weeks without success.  I'm not sure that it's
ready for a production environment.

John Lucas wrote:
> On Saturday 04 November 2006 00:41, Harish Pillay wrote:
>>> Is there any bio-metric reader supported by Ltsp for finger print
>>> identification?
>>>
>>> My school is planning to identify students and record their in/out-time
>>> using finger print scanning. Presently, I have a LTSP client on 486 at
>>> the security gates. All the vendors interviewed are providing Windows
>>> only solutions.
>> I do not have experience with it, but perhaps this URL would have
>> enough info to help:
>> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader
>>
> 
> This seems to be specific to the integrated fingerprint scanner in the IBM 
> Thinkpad laptop computer. Nice to know they have Linux support, but if 
> biometrics are going to be used througout the enterprise, there has to be a 
> central database and just getting a reader to scan is neccessary but not 
> sufficient for the purpose. There is a lot of system integration (and 
> expense) involved in such systems.
> 
> I would have serious cost/benefit questions if I were involved, particularly 
> if one of those costs was to lock the school into a single computing platform 
> in order to support it. What happens at upgrade time? If this is a 
> single-purpose solution (campus entry/exit), then it would be less 
> restrictive, but the benefit (single authoritative authentication source) 
> would also be reduced.
> 
>
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