---
name: "vmware-user-suid-wrapper"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "open-vm-tools-desktop"
version: "2:12.5.0-2+deb13u1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vmware-user-suid-wrapper"
---

# vmware-user-suid-wrapper(1)

wrapper programm for vmware-user(1)

## NAME

vmware-user-suid-wrapper - wrapper programm for [*vmware-user*(1)](/vmware-user/1.md)

## SYNOPSIS

**vmware-user-suid-wrapper**

## DESCRIPTION

Operations on the [*vmblock*(9)](/vmblock/9.md) 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)](/vmware-user/1.md). 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-checkvm/1.md)\
 [*vmware-hgfsclient*(1)](/vmware-hgfsclient/1.md)\
 [*vmware-toolbox*(1)](/vmware-toolbox/1.md)\
 [*vmware-toolbox-cmd*(1)](/vmware-toolbox-cmd/1.md)\
 [*vmware-user*(1)](/vmware-user/1.md)\
 [*vmware-xferlogs*(1)](/vmware-xferlogs/1.md)\
 [*libguestlib*(3)](/libguestlib/3.md)\
 [*libvmtools*(3)](/libvmtools/3.md)\
 [*vmware-guestd*(8)](/vmware-guestd/8.md)\
 [*vmware-hgfsmounter*(8)](/vmware-hgfsmounter/8.md)\
 [*vmblock*(9)](/vmblock/9.md)\
 [*vmci*(9)](/vmci/9.md)\
 [*vmhgfs*(9)](/vmhgfs/9.md)\
 [*vmmemctl*(9)](/vmmemctl/9.md)\
 [*vmsock*(9)](/vmsock/9.md)\
 [*vmsync*(9)](/vmsync/9.md)\
 [*vmxnet*(9)](/vmxnet/9.md)\
 [*vmxnet3*(9)](/vmxnet3/9.md)

## 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).