setfacl can kill a drive

[Steven Penny]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
>     $ icacls 'C:\.' /restore 'C:\acl.txt'
>     C:\.\.: Access is denied.

I believe the following commands will fix it. After setfacl trashes the
permissions, you need to temporarily take ownership of "C:\", restore the
permissions then set the owner back. Of course this is contingent on either
having backed up the permissions beforehand, or perhaps transferring them from
a clean virtual machine.

    icacls 'C:\.' /save 'C:\acl.txt'
    setfacl --remove-all /cygdrive/c
    takeown /f 'C:\.'
    icacls 'C:\.' /grant users:f
    icacls 'C:\acl.txt' /grant users:f
    icacls 'C:\.' /restore 'C:\acl.txt'
    icacls 'C:\.' /setowner 'NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller'

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