vmware-user-suid-wrapper - wrapper programm for vmware-user(1)
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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.
Homepage
More information about vmware-user-suid-wrapper and the Open VM Tools can be found at
<http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.
Name
vmware-user-suid-wrapper - wrapper programm for vmware-user(1)
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)
Synopsis
vmware-user-suid-wrapper
