.TH VMWARE\-USER\-SUID\-WRAPPER 1 "2010\-04\-08" "2010.03.20\-243334" "Open VM Tools"

.SH NAME
vmware\-user\-suid\-wrapper \- wrapper programm for \fIvmware\-user\fR(1)

.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBvmware\-user\-suid\-wrapper\fR

.SH DESCRIPTION
Operations on the \fIvmblock\fR(9) filesystem are considered privileged, and as such may only be issued on a file descriptor acquired by root. This is accomplished by vmware\-user\-suid\-wrapper, a small setuid wrapper whose only purpose is to acquire a filesystem file descriptor, drop superuser privileges, and then execute \fIvmware\-user\fR(1).
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In particular, prepare the system for vmware-user means that it unmounts the vmblock file system, unloads the vmblock module, then reloads the module, mounts the file system, and opens a file descriptor that vmware-user can use to add and remove blocks.

.SH OPTIONS
vmware\-user\-suid\-wrapper has no options.

.SH SEE ALSO
\fIvmware\-checkvm\fR(1)
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\fIvmware\-hgfsclient\fR(1)
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\fIvmware\-toolbox\fR(1)
.br
\fIvmware\-toolbox\-cmd\fR(1)
.br
\fIvmware\-user\fR(1)
.br
\fIvmware\-xferlogs\fR(1)
.br
\fIlibguestlib\fR(3)
.br
\fIlibvmtools\fR(3)
.br
\fIvmware\-guestd\fR(8)
.br
\fIvmware\-hgfsmounter\fR(8)
.br
\fIvmblock\fR(9)
.br
\fIvmci\fR(9)
.br
\fIvmhgfs\fR(9)
.br
\fIvmmemctl\fR(9)
.br
\fIvmsock\fR(9)
.br
\fIvmsync\fR(9)
.br
\fIvmxnet\fR(9)
.br
\fIvmxnet3\fR(9)

.SH HOMEPAGE
More information about vmware\-user\-suid\-wrapper and the Open VM Tools can be found at <\fIhttp://open\-vm\-tools.sourceforge.net/\fR>.

.SH AUTHOR
Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <\fIhttp://www.vmware.com/\fR>.
.PP
This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <\fImail@daniel-baumann.ch\fR>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).