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Sorry for being late on the replies to this original post, but I've
just gotten back after a week of being sick.

At UNH, we use some in-house programs that check an ID number and date
of birth against a set of databases.  If a match is found, the user
can get to the stuff on our servers, if not, the machines are
useless.  This removes the need to have the Student Consultants
checking everyone in when they enter the rooms.  We get our main
database nightly from the Registrar so we know who the current
students are.  Faculty and staff get entered by hand.

On the IBM's, the program is a stand-alone program that we run via
Direct Access, but since it takes its arguments on the command line,
reads settings from configuration file, and returns the result by
writing a batch file, and system of batch files should be able to use
it.  The program is highly stable, configurable, and logs everything.

On the Mac's, the program must be run to connect via AppleTalk to our
file server.  Companion programs log off the server volume so we try
to force everyone to go through the log on process every time.  It
works fairly well.  Unfortunately, these programs are not as stable
yet, and are highly customized to our setup of servers.  I'm working
towards a more generic version that might be useful to others, but my
main programmer got a better job a while back so until then, the Mac
programs themselves won't help anybody, but if you want to roll your
own, I can provide you with our source code.

If anyone is interested, feel free to e-mail me directly.  If there is
enough info, we have an FTP site where I can make the IBM program,
source code for both, and some basic documentation available.

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