wine users - Jan 2010 - writing binary windows registry files

Hi,

like others before (see e.g.
news://news.gmane.org:119/1259671185.m2f.35924 at forum.winehq.org)
I had hoped to be able to use windows "reg.exe" to read/write windows
registry files on a linux system and found, that this does not work)
I am aware of the "offline nt registry editor"
(http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/), which would be mostly what I am 
looking for, but unfortunately lacks too many features that I need (e.g. 
importing regedit files into a windows registry).

Is somebody here maybe aware of any other reasonable option? I don't
think there is any other Linux program to do this, but maybe some 
windows program (unfortunately, for my purposes, it has to be a console 
application) that I could use under wine and that can directly access 
windows registry files?

Any ideas appreciated,
                                   Peter Daum

Peter Daum wrote:
> I had hoped to be able to use windows "reg.exe" to read/write
windows registry files on a linux system and found, that this does not work)
Of course it doesn't. Kernel handles registry, reg.exe is just a gui app
that displays it.

Wine itself can't read Windows binary registry files. Which means no windows
program running on Wine will... Google for few Linux native programs that can do
specific tasks, like resetting admin password.