tools to read/write registry files

[Ingo Steuwer]

Hi Jelmer,

Am Montag, 15. Januar 2007 14:19 schrieb Jelmer Vernooij:
> Hi Ingo,
>
[..] 
> > 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)

Thanks, that works in a short test.

> 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.

"mkkey" in regshell gave me a backtrace, are you interrested in reports?

> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>
[..]

Regards
Ingo

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