samba-technical digest, Vol 1 #2182 - 14 msgs

[Richard Sharpe]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Andy Thomas wrote:

> 
>   I think this would be quite useful.  I already got good use out of the
> profiles program.  I was able to copy a few hundred profiles from our
> production domain to our test domain, use the profiles program to change 
> all the SIDs, and user's profiles worked.
> 
>   As far as a registry editor, command line would be very useful for
> calling it from other programs.  Here are things I think would be useful:
> 
> Some basic functions (KEY is a unique path)
>   -addkey KEY  -value  VALUE      #(add a key/value)
>   -modkey KEY  -value  VALUE      #(modify value if key exists [add if not?])
>   -delkey KEY                     #(delete key)
>   -shokey KEY                     #(print the key/value)  

OK, that looks good, but VALUE might need to be something like:

   REG_SZ:"Tiptoe through the tulips ..."
 
> Some advanced functions 
>   Allow KEY to have (*) wildcards to match multiple KEYS
> 
>   -modkey  -oldvalue  OLDVALUE  -value VALUE   #(find all keys with value of
>                                                  OLDVALUE, change to VALUE)
> 
>   add a optional  -replace and -noreplace option to -addkey and -modkey 
>       to specify what to do if a key already exists.
> 
>   Be able to read KEY/VALUE pairs from stdin or file, and use the input
> 	to set/replace keys.  For complicated tasks, you could print
> 	all keys to a file with registry editor, process the file with 
>         an external program (perl, awk, sed, etc.) and then run registry editor
> 	again, reading in the KEY/VALUEs to change.
> 
> I am not suggesting this as the command line interface, just functions that 
> would be available.

The other thing that needs to be done is to be able to specify 
adding/moding/deleting ACLs and ACEs in ACLs. 

Thanks for the feedback. I might have all the infrastructure done by the 
end of the week.

The really big thing that has to be done is the code to write it out. I 
don't yet know whether MS uses depth first or breadth first in flattening 
the structure.

> Andy Thomas
> 
>  >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 01:56:50 -0800 (PST)
>  >From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe at richardsharpe.com>
>  >Subject: A registry editor taking shape ...
>  >
>  >Hi,
>  >
>  >A registry editor, editreg, is slowly taking shape in Samba-head.
>  >
>  >The goal is to be able to do things like: 
>  >
>  > - delete keys and values
>  > - add keys and values
>  > - change keys and values
>  > - Change the SIDS/SecDescs applied to keys.
>  > - write out the changes tree
>  > - create a tree from scratch
>  >
>  >What would be useful is some thoughts on how the interface should be 
>  >constructed, as in command-line, or a .reg file of commands, etc.
> 
> 
> 

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