problem with access granting script - access

25 May 2017

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