NAME¶

vmware-user-suid-wrapper - wrapper programm for vmware-user(1)

SYNOPSIS¶

vmware-user-suid-wrapper

DESCRIPTION¶

Operations on the vmblock(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 vmware-user(1). 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.

OPTIONS¶

vmware-user-suid-wrapper has no options.

SEE ALSO¶

vmware-checkvm(1) vmware-hgfsclient(1) vmware-toolbox(1) vmware-toolbox-cmd(1) vmware-user(1) vmware-xferlogs(1) libguestlib(3) libvmtools(3) vmware-guestd(8) vmware-hgfsmounter(8) vmblock(9) vmci(9) vmhgfs(9) vmmemctl(9) vmsock(9) vmsync(9) vmxnet(9) vmxnet3(9)

HOMEPAGE¶

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

AUTHOR¶

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