[sudo-access] problem with access granting script

Karissa McKelvey karissa.mckelvey at gmail.com
Thu May 25 13:20:05 PDT 2017


this might be the issue: https://github.com/sudoroom/doorjam/pull/8

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Karissa McKelvey
<karissa.mckelvey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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