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 <daniel [AT] debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).