vmware-user-suid-wrapper (1)

Contents

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
HOMEPAGE
AUTHOR

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).