[Bug 28729] EasyBCD: bcdedit complains about lack of privileges (import of registry hive using native API fails/wineserver token privilege check)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28729

--- Comment #8 from Saulius K. <saulius2 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Anastasius Focht from comment #7)
> Hello folks,
> 
> --- quote ---
> Do you want to open a new bug report for the remaining issue (support for
> binary registry format), or do you think its a WONTFIX?
> --- quote ---
> 
> There are already some bugs from the past that kind of touched the area of
> binary registry hives:
> 
> * bug 4001 (BartPE)
> * bug 19324 (ubcd4win)
> * bug 22124 (BartPE)
> * ...
> 
> Most of them were closed 'WONTFIX' or 'INVALID' with rather unspecific
> conclusion.
> 
> The actual reasons for the tickets were likely real bugs, not related to
> missing binary registry hive support.

I'd say conclusion in bug 29529 was very strighforward:

(Vitaliy Margolen from comment #1)
> Wine does not support native binary registry hives. And there are no plans
> to support it in the future.

So:

> We could create a new collector bug which explicitly deals with the support

I would go for that (or just reopen bug 29529).  

> but I think it will stay for a long time, if not forever (hence WONTFIX
> would be appropriate).

Wine probably could use hivex/libhivex [7], especialy given that NeoSmart
developers test it by contacting author itself, Richard W.M. Jones [8].  

Then I see libhivex mentioned in the changelog [9] of fred -- cross-platform
Forensic Registry EDitor [10].  I just found it's source but haven't looked at
it yet: [11].

It seems hivex/libhivex is covered by LPGL, while fred uses GPL.


[07]http://libguestfs.org/hivex.3.html#description
[08]https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-October/msg00235.html
[09]https://code.pinguin.lu/file/data/tphsilqyznescmu7ryyu/PHID-FILE-t3l35dqhthpkskmibkoi/1d2e440d2d415d4fe9ae765a0589a981615a10a5.diff
[10]https://www.pinguin.lu/fred
[11]https://code.pinguin.lu/diffusion/FRED/browse/master/trunk/

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