Re: setfacl can kill a drive

2015-04-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 8 16:40, Steven Penny wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:17 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > > I upgraded to the new Cygwin today, why is this command producing different > > permissions? Moreover how do I get it to produce sane results? > > I was able to use these command to produce sane results

Re: setfacl can kill a drive

2015-04-08 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Cygwin is not Linux. > And C:\ drive is not a part of Cygwin. > If you really want to destroy your Windows installation, there's easier ways > than meddling with setfacl on the root drive. Thanks for the reply. However, did you have anything co

Re: setfacl can kill a drive

2015-04-08 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Steven Penny! >> I upgraded to the new Cygwin today, why is this command producing different >> permissions? Moreover how do I get it to produce sane results? > I was able to use these command to produce sane results > $ cd /cygdrive/c > $ touch bad.txt > $ setfacl -k .

Re: setfacl can kill a drive

2015-04-08 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:17 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > I upgraded to the new Cygwin today, why is this command producing different > permissions? Moreover how do I get it to produce sane results? I was able to use these command to produce sane results $ cd /cygdrive/c $ touch bad.txt

Re: setfacl can kill a drive

2015-04-08 Thread David Macek
On 8. 4. 2015 12:17, Steven Penny wrote: > Also I discovered this > > $ setfacl -b /cygdrive/c > > After that you get this > > C:\ is not accessible. > Access is denied. > > Luckily this was in a virtual machine. Otherwise, can this be undone? This is > very dangerous, and I feel it