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Identicator Technology BioLogon 2.0 Server for Windows
A rich feature set combined with a well-constructed biometric authentication model earned Identicator Technology's BioLogon 2.0 high marks in our tests. We were especially impressed with the quality of integration into the existing NT environment.
BioLogon offers eight combinations of fingerprint, password and smart-card authentication. Using biometrics, user accounts can be enrolled with multiple fingers per user-four by default and up to eight with an entry into the registry.
Like the products from Saflink and NEC, BioLogon integrates its solution into the existing NT user management and authentication systems. Identicator makes proprietary extensions to the SAM (Security Account Manager) database, incorporating its own fields for biometric storage.
We configured biometric policies for new and existing users easily through an intuitive dialog box. For biometrics users, BioLogon defaults to allow login with either fingerprint or password. If you select a biometric-only login, BioLogon offers to generate a new user password automatically. By default, the software leaves existing user passwords untouched, but BioLogon offers an easily configurable system for password management. BioLogon can generate a random password, as do the NEC and Saflink products, but it goes a step further in its integration with NT. We were able to configure password generation in accordance with NT expiration settings,...