tools to read/write registry files

[Ingo Steuwer]

Hello,

I'm looking for tools to read and write windows registry files (.reg or .pol) 
under Linux. 

I first tried "editreg" in 3.0.10 which was removed in 3.0.14. It seems to 
meet my needs, but has no write support. The changelog says

* Remove editreg utility (needs to be rewritten using regfio.c).

Is a new Tool with similar fuctionality planed or already somewhere in SVN?

regfio.c contains several write-routines, do you consider write-access 
to .reg-files (add, modify and delete keys) stable?

Is the included tool "profiles" a good example to start working with regfio, 
or are there better/newer ones or other documentation?

I also tried the registry tools coming with samba4, a SVN-Snapshot from friday 
delivers various errors (see below). I found no documentation for this tools 
so far, is it true that they access a registry remote using rpc and can't 
open .reg-files?

Thanks in advance
Ingo Steuwer

stbase:~# regshell
unable to load tdb 
from /usr/local/samba/modules/ldb/tdb.so: /usr/local/samba/modules/ldb/tdb.so: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Unable to find backend for '/usr/local/samba/private/hklm.ldb'
unable to load tdb 
from /usr/local/samba/modules/ldb/tdb.so: /usr/local/samba/modules/ldb/tdb.so: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Unable to find backend for '/usr/local/samba/private/hku.ldb'
Unable to access any of the predefined keys

stbase:~# regdiff
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 11856 (4.0.0tp4-SVN-build-UNKNOWN)
Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
PANIC: internal error
BACKTRACE: 9 stack frames:
 #0 regdiff(call_backtrace+0x2b) [0x83ec2b3]
 #1 regdiff(smb_panic+0x21c) [0x83ec5a9]
 #2 regdiff [0x83ec6f7]
 #3 regdiff [0x83ec72b]
 #4 [0xb7f0a420]
 #5 regdiff(reg_generate_diff+0x67) [0x80971c5]
 #6 regdiff(main+0x474) [0x808fa48]
 #7 /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0xb7da3974]
 #8 regdiff [0x808f531]
Abgebrochen

stbase:~# regtree
Skipping HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Skipping HKEY_CURRENT_USER
unable to load tdb 
from /usr/local/samba/modules/ldb/tdb.so: /usr/local/samba/modules/ldb/tdb.so: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Unable to find backend for '/usr/local/samba/private/hklm.ldb'
Skipping HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Skipping HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA
unable to load tdb 
from /usr/local/samba/modules/ldb/tdb.so: /usr/local/samba/modules/ldb/tdb.so: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Unable to find backend for '/usr/local/samba/private/hku.ldb'
Skipping HKEY_USERS
Skipping HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
Skipping HKEY_DYN_DATA
Skipping HKEY_PERFORMANCE_TEXT
Skipping HKEY_PERFORMANCE_NLSTEXT

stbase:~# regpatch
Error: WERR_OK




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