samba - Mar 2022 - Remove all Windows ACL's from files/folders

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 10:07:16AM -0700, Greg Sloop <gregs--- via samba
wrote:
>What's the proper way to REMOVE all the ACL's assigned by Windows to
a
>Samba share/folders/files?
>
>The short story is I was having problems assigning ACL's via the Windows
>security dialog. I managed to fix that, but now users that I assign rights
>to a file/folder simply don't have those rights, and I can't figure
out why.
>
>I want to make absolutely sure that all the previous ACL's are gone so
I'm
>sure I'm working with a clean setup. If I still have issues, then at
least
>I'm starting from a clean base, so working through the troubleshooting
>steps might be easier.
If you are storing Windows ACLs into EA's then recursively
remove system.NTACL from all files/directories. You'll
need to be root.

On 3/24/22 12:10, Jeremy Allison via samba wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 10:07:16AM -0700, Greg Sloop <gregs--- via samba
> wrote:
>> What's the proper way to REMOVE all the ACL's assigned by
Windows to a
>> Samba share/folders/files?
>>
>> The short story is I was having problems assigning ACL's via the
Windows
>> security dialog. I managed to fix that, but now users that I assign 
>> rights
>> to a file/folder simply don't have those rights, and I can't
figure
>> out why.
>>
>> I want to make absolutely sure that all the previous ACL's are gone
so
>> I'm
>> sure I'm working with a clean setup. If I still have issues, then
at
>> least
>> I'm starting from a clean base, so working through the
troubleshooting
>> steps might be easier.
> 
> If you are storing Windows ACLs into EA's then recursively
> remove system.NTACL from all files/directories. You'll
> need to be root.
> 
Sorry, this lost me completely.  What is system.NTACL?