[sudo-access] problem with access granting script

[Anthony Di Franco]

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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