Man page - vmware-user-suid-wrapper(1)
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VMWARE-USER-SUID-WRAPPER
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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SEE ALSO
HOMEPAGE
AUTHOR
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).