NAME

       vmware-user-suid-wrapper - wrapper programm for vmware-user

SYNOPSIS

       vmware-user-suid-wrapper

DESCRIPTION

       Operations  on the vmblock 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.  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-cmd(1)
       vmware-xferlogs(1)
       libguestlib(3)
       libvmtools(3)
       vmware-hgfsmounter(8)

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).

2010.03.20-243334                                  2010-04-08                        VMWARE-USER-SUID-WRAPPER(1)