Stephen, sounds like an interesting project. I myself don't know anything
about this kind of thing, but I remembered that Steve Nelson did something
like this with magnetic cards, so I found the URL just in case it might
help you out.
Here you go:
http://fusebox.org/members/card/index.cfm?fuseaction=cardloginform
HTH!
Avi
At 10:54 AM 6/15/2001 -0500, Stephen Pintauro wrote:
>Hello all,
>I am interested in setting up a password-protected Web site that would
>allow users to use fingerprint authentication to bypass entering a
>username and password. I know there are a number of products on the
>market that can do this, but I am looking for a more "customizable"
>interface. We will be using this on some computers that we are placing
>in community senior centers and we want to minimize the hazzle of
>enrolling their fingerprints (for new users) and authenticating their
>fingerprints (for returning users). It occured to me that Cold Fusion
>may be able to play a part here, although I am not sure exactly how. We
>are prepared to invest in the fingerprint input devices. I expect that
>we will also need some proprietary software that stores and retrieves
>the fingerprint info when needed. I have included below a hypothetical
>scenario on how I was imagining this whole system could work. My
>questions are as follows:
>
>Has anyone had any experience with a similar application of Cold Fusion?
>
>Does anyone have any recommendation on a commercial system that we could
>interface with Cold Fusion for this purpose?
>If there is anyone interested in taking this on as a freelance
>consutling project, I would be interested in discussing it with
>him/her. Please feel free to contact me off the list.
>
>My idea for how this might work is as follows:
>
>1. User is brought to the Welcome page. They are asked if they are a
>�New User� or a �Previous User.� They then select �New User.�
>
>2. User is prompted to enter:
> First Name
> Last Name
> Other demographic info
>
>3. When the new user presses the �Submit� button, Cold Fusion will
>automatically assign the first letter of their first name and up to the
>first seven letters of their last name as their �Username.�
>Cold Fusion will automatically assign a six-character alphanumeric
>�Password.�
>
>4. First Name, Last Name, Username and passwords will be saved in a
>�Password� database table.
>
>5. The �Submit� button will take the user to a page where they will be
>asked to place their index finger on the fingerprint hardware device to
>�enroll� their fingerprint. The enrolled fingerprint will be recorded
>to the database table associated with that user�s First Name, Last Name,
>Username and Password. This �enrollment� page will need to have a
>customized look.
>
>6. After the new user is �enrolled�, they will have access to all other
>parts of the Web site.
>
>7. When they revisit the site, they will indicate that they are a
>�Previous User.� They will then be presented with a Web page where they
>will be prompted to place their index finger on the fingerprint hardware
>device. They will not need to enter their username nor password. The
>fingerprint identification software will search the database for the
>matching fingerprint and the associated �First Name� of the user. When
>the user is authenticated, a Web page will be presented that
>says�.�Welcome back, Stephen� �..and the rest of the Web site menu.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Stephen Pintauro
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