regpatch - Man Page

Applies registry patches to registry files

Synopsis

regpatch [--help] [--backend=BACKEND] [--credentials=CREDENTIALS] [location] [patch-file]

Description

The regpatch utility applies registry patches to Windows registry files​. The patch files should have the same format as is being used by the regdiff utility and regedit32​.exe from Windows​.

If no patch file is specified on the command line, regpatch attempts to read it from standard input​.

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​.

Version

This man page is correct for version 4​.0 of the Samba suite​.

See Also

regdiff, regtree, regshell, gregedit, samba, diff, patch

Author

This utility is part of the Samba​[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team​[2]​.

This manpage and regpatch were written by Jelmer Vernooij​.

Notes

  1. Samba
    http://www.samba.org/
  2. Samba Team
    http://www.samba.org/samba/team/

Info

10/01/2026 Samba 4.0 System Administration tools