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).