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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@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
       others).