tools to read/write registry files

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Ingo,

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 13:48 +0100, Ingo Steuwer wrote:
> 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?
I'm not sure if there are any plans for that in Samba 3. Jerry would know more about that.

> 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?
These tools only work without arguments if you have a configured Samba 4 installation. Without such an 
installation, you should be able to use them for individual hives or
non-local registries. Admittedly, the default error messages could be
improved :-)

Example commands that should work:

regshell -b nt4 NTUSER.DAT (browse existing NTUSER.DAT file)
regshell -b nt4 NTConfig.pol (browse NTConfig policy file)
regpatch -R ncacn_ip_tcp:192.168.4.1 < foo.reg (apply .reg patch file to
remote hosts registry)

Coincidentally, Wilco Baan Hofman and I have been working on write
support for nt4 (regf) registries, which is almost done now. 

Cheers,

Jelmer

> 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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