Regshell (1) Linux Manual Page

regshell – Windows registry file browser using readline

Synopsis

regshell [–help] [–backend=BACKEND] [–credentials=CREDENTIALS] [location]

Description

regshell is a utility that lets you browse thru a Windows registry file as if you were using a regular unix shell to browse thru a file system.

Options

–help

Show list of available options.

–backend BACKEND

Name of backend to load. Possible values are: creg, regf, dir and rpc. The default is dir.

–credentials=CREDENTIALS

Credentials to use, if any. Password should be separated from user name by a percent sign.

Commands

ck|cd <keyname>

Go to the specified subkey.

ch|predef [predefined-key-name]

Go to the specified predefined key.

list|ls

List subkeys and values of the current key.

mkkey|mkdir <keyname>

Create a key with the specified keyname as a subkey of the current key.

rmval|rm <valname>

Delete the specified value.

rmkey|rmdir <keyname>

Delete the specified subkey recursively.

pwd|pwk

Print the full name of the current key.

set|update

Update the value of a key value. Not implemented at the moment.

help|?

Print a list of available commands.

exit|quit

Leave regshell.

Examples

Browsing thru a nt4 registry file

regshell -b nt4 NTUSER.DAT

$$$PROTO.HIV> ls

K AppEvents

K Console

K Control Panel

K Environment

K Identities

K Keyboard Layout

K Network

K Printers

K Software

K UNICODE Program Groups

K Windows 3.1 Migration Status

$$$PROTO.HIV> exit

Listing the subkeys of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents on a remote computer:

regshell –remote=ncacn_np:aurelia -c "jelmer%secret"

HKEY_CURRENT_MACHINE> predef HKEY_CURRENT_USER

HKEY_CURRENT_USER> cd AppEvents

Current path is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents> ls

K EventLabels

K Schemes

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents> exit

Version

This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.

Author

This utility is part of the m[blue]Sambam[][1] suite, which is developed by the global m[blue]Samba Teamm[][2].

This manpage and regshell were written by Jelmer Vernooij.

Notes

1.

Samba

http://www.samba.org/

2.

Samba Team

http://www.samba.org/samba/team/

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