From 969e14eae941427cf36c71b5588d7dd8e1f3c615 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jelmer Vernooij Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:06:40 +0000 Subject: r4155: More destinction between hives and predefined keys (This used to be commit c37d6f3c581673d74e7ec6a644ab6a7d13a55535) --- source4/lib/registry/README | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'source4/lib/registry/README') diff --git a/source4/lib/registry/README b/source4/lib/registry/README index 757029cdc2..c91d361acd 100644 --- a/source4/lib/registry/README +++ b/source4/lib/registry/README @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ This is the registry library. The registry is basically a bunch of hives -(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, etc) that can be loaded from -different places. +that can be loaded from different places. The various registry backends provide support for loading/saving specific types of hives: @@ -28,3 +27,15 @@ registry:HKEY_CURRENT_USER = nt4:NTUSER.DAT registry:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = ldb:tdb://registry.tdb WERR_NOT_SUPPORTED will be returned for all hives that haven't been set. + +On Windows the various registry hives are loaded from: + +HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\System +HKEY_CURRENT_USER: %Profile%\NTUser.dat +HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SAM: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\Sam +HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\Security +HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\Software +HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\System +HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\Default +HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE: is autogenerated + -- cgit