[sudo-access] problem with access granting script

[Karissa McKelvey]

it should be all async or all sync

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is this script doing anything asynchronously in the first place?
> Were you suggesting that this behavior is unavoidable in node? (WTF?)
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:57 AM Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>
>> there is a bad bug in the script we use to add keycards to the access
>> control
>> system, called grant_access_to_last_attempt.js
>>
>> that script should make the filesystem read-write before attempting to add
>> the
>> record, but since it's written in node, there is no sequentiality to it at
>> all
>> and the dinosaurs coexist with the humans like in The Flintstones and
>> nothing
>> gets done.
>>
>> I asked Corey for help and he made some changes to the script but it
>> didn't
>> work.  If anyone wants to fix this it would be a good idea.
>>
>> Presently, when someone tries to use this script to add someone to the
>> access
>> system, it asks all the questions and lets you fill them in and then it
>> fails.
>> You have to run rwroot to make the filesystem writeable and try again,
>> typing
>> in everything again.
>>
>> and then it leaves the filesystem in a writeable state, because people
>> ignore
>> the warning on the prompt saying to run roroot to put it back, and
>> eventually
>> it will ruin the disk on the front door computer.
>>
>> here is the github pull request, that didn't work.
>>
>> https://github.com/sudoroom/doorjam/pull/7
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