VMWARE-USER-SUID-WRAPPER(8) Open VM Tools VMWARE-USER-SUID-WRAPPER(8)
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.baumann@progress-technologies.net>, for the Debian
project (but may be used by others).
2010.03.20-243334 2010-04-08 VMWARE-USER-SUID-WRAPPER(8)