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Re: setfacl can kill a drive
- From: Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 19:20:05 -0500
- Subject: Re: setfacl can kill a drive
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- References: <CAAXzdLUZvdNw_UyOXMa5ozoGuG7zjPnz=rRLELFBoEF8+miZUA at mail dot gmail dot com> <CAAXzdLUgnjfeA=LkrdUp68zHterj5hj5BtLqh0W=TCAn1zPrpQ at mail dot gmail dot com> <20150409074328 dot GO2819 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> It's a result of ACL inheritance and before the changes to Cygwin's
> ACL handling, you wouldn't even have seen it.
If someone runs a dangerous command such as
setfacl --remove-all /cygdrive/c
Or
setfacl --remove-default /cygdrive/c
Can this damage be undone without reinstalling Windows?
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