An apparatus and method for authentication system access identification

The present invention relates to an apparatus for identifying an access authentication method and system, the method comprising: an authentication server receives the authentication information to be sent by the authentication device, the authentication information comprises a device identifier; if the device identifier indicative of a first type of device to be authenticated apparatus, using biological and hardware fingerprint authentication, the device identifier indicates if the device is to be authenticated second devices, the fingerprint authentication using hardware. The system includes an authentication server, the first type device, the second type device; a first type device using biological and hardware fingerprint authentication device uses a second type of hardware fingerprint authentication. The present invention is able to distinguish between the type of equipment used, the biometric authentication and fingerprint authentication hardware combination enhance the security of the LAN, to simplify the authentication process.