samba - May 2004 - read (and edit?) registry files on Linux

Hello,

Is there a way in Linux to read Windows registry files?

I have only ssh access to the Linux/Samba server, and would like to be able 
to check settings in user profiles (in their ntuser.dat files). Best would 
be if I could even edit settings in there.

For now, it seems the only thing I can do is scp the files to a Windows 
machine, and manually load the hives in regedt32. Very cumbersome. I'm 
looking for a more Linux-like solution: command-line, scriptable, etc.

BTW, I have Samba 3.0.2a.

Thanks,

Mi

Hi,

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:41:53AM +0200, Mi wrote about '[Samba] read (and
edit?) registry files on Linux':
> Is there a way in Linux to read Windows registry files?
See the regdiff, regpatch, gregedit, regtree and regshell utilities
included with Samba 4 or editreg included with Samba 3.
> I have only ssh access to the Linux/Samba server, and would like to be able
> to check settings in user profiles (in their ntuser.dat files). Best would 
> be if I could even edit settings in there.
> For now, it seems the only thing I can do is scp the files to a Windows 
> machine, and manually load the hives in regedt32. Very cumbersome. I'm 
> looking for a more Linux-like solution: command-line, scriptable, etc.
In that case, either editreg or regtree/regshell should do fine.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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>In that case, either editreg or regtree/regshell should do fine.
Hm... I dont't find any of these on my Debian box with Samba 3.0.2a.

Googling for regshell, I seem to only find references to a wsh regshell 
object or something. Is there another regshell for Linux/Samba which I 
would have missed?

On the Samba site, I found a man page about editreg, but it's not very 
clear, and I don't have it on my system.

About editreg, http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/editreg.1.html says:

"editreg ? A utility to report and change SIDs in registry files"
and
"editreg is a utility that can visualize windows registry files (currently 
only NT4) and apply so-called commandfiles to them."

Thanks for your help.

Mi