regshell 1 Samba System Administration tools 4.0 regshell Windows registry file browser using readline 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. SEE ALSO regtree, regdiff, regpatch, gregedit, samba AUTHOR This utility is part of the Samba suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team. This manpage and regshell were written by Jelmer Vernooij.