VMWARE-USER-SUID-WRAPPER(1)

💖 VMWARE-USER-SUID-WRAPPER 💖

okay bestie, so we're in section 1 of the Open VM Tools manual, and today's main character is vmware-user-suid-wrapper — literally the tiny little backstage crew member that makes vmware-user(1) even possible. no cap. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

vmware-user-suid-wrapper — a lil wrapper programm for vmware-user(1). that's it. that's the whole job. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vmware-user-suid-wrapper

no flags, no args, no drama. she just goes. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🍓 — doing operations on the vmblock(9) filesystem counts as privileged, and that means they can only be issued on a file descriptor that was acquired by root. periodt. can't fake it, can't skip the line.

and that's literally the whole reason vmware-user-suid-wrapper exists — it's a small setuid wrapper whose only purpose (her one singular job, her entire arc 👑) is to:

1. acquire a filesystem file descriptor,
2. drop superuser privileges,
3. then execute vmware-user(1).

the way that it works is genuinely so satisfying ngl. "prepare the system for vmware-user" means she:

• 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.

ate and left no crumbs 🔥

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• vmware-user-suid-wrapper has no options.

yep. that's the whole list. she's lowkey minimalist about it, and honestly? iconic. 🙈

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go read these next, bestie, they're all in the family:

• 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)

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🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

want more lore on vmware-user-suid-wrapper and the Open VM Tools in general? it's all waiting for you at <http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/> 🫶

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

the Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <http://www.vmware.com/>. 💖

and 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, she's generous like that ✨).

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and that's a wrap on the vibe check, bestie 💅 this page came from the Open VM Tools, version 2010.03.20-243334, dated 2010-04-08. go forth and be privileged-but-responsibly 💖🧚‍♀️🌸