take ownership of files using powershell

$ownerpath = import-csv -Path .\ownerpath.csv
<# Sample CSV
user,path
'domain\user1','c:\temp\abc'
'domain\user2','c:\temp\abcd'
#>
foreach ($opath in $ownerpath){
$acl = get-acl -Path $opath.path
$acl.SetOwner([System.Security.Principal.NTAccount] $opath.user)
set-acl $owner.path $acl 
}

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Awesome!! Let me test out the script. I was reading somewhere that it was throwing some errors with powershell and that's why it was recommended to use other external utility such as takeown or subinacle. But I searched everywhere and didn't find any switches for those so that I can use excel file as import. It will take me forever to run line by line with takeownership or subinacle. So hopefully this will work.

Question,
Would import-csv work as well with takeown or subinacle util?

if so then use powershell to parse the csv and pass parameters to the programs
start-process program.exe    $opath.path $opath.user

Here is the subniacle and takeown command.

subinacl /file test.txt /setowner=domain\foo

or

takeown /f \\Fileserver01\sales /r /A /d y

So I would do like this?
start-process subniacle   $opath.path $opath.user

Unfortunately, it didn't work: I got this error. Please help


ERROR: +     set-acl $owner.path $acl
ERROR: +             ~~~~~~~~~~~
ERROR:     + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [Set-Acl], ParameterBindingValidationException
ERROR:     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationErrorNullNotAllowed,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetAclCommand
ERROR:

a friend sent me an example of vbscript below that is used to work with subinacl to do a loop. The vbscript does completely different thing but this is an example that subinacl could be used with vbscript or possibly powershell to loop. Since I am new to powershell and scripting, I would not be able to do this. Could you please help so that I can change owners for the files using csv import file that lists multiple shares and new owners.

subinacl /file c:\test\ntfs\ /setowner=Test

subinacl /file c:\test\ntfs\ /setowner=Test

  '===================================================================

strFilePath = "MSLogFile.log"
strOutFolderPath = "C:\BackupPermission"
strSubInAclPath = "C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\SUBINACL.exe"

Set objFile = Createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set objTextFile = objFile.OpenTextFile(strFilePath,1)
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

If Not objFile.FolderExists(strOutFolderPath) Then
objFile.CreateFolder (strOutFolderPath)
End If

count = 0

Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream
strLine = objTextFile.ReadLine
strLine = Split(strLine,",")(0)
If Trim(strLine) <> "" Then
  strOutLog = strOutFolderPath & "\" & Mid(strLine,InStrRev(strLine,"\") + 1,Len(strLine)) & ".txt"
  strCommand = Chr(34) & strSubInAclPath & Chr(34) & " /noverbose /outputlog=" & strOutLog & " /subdirectories " & strLine & " /display"
  wscript.echo strCommand
  Return = WshShell.Run(strCommand, 1, true)
End If


Loop

THis was a solution