/etc/vmware-tools/ is in open-vm-tools 2:10.2.0-3ubuntu3.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o755.
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/etc/vmware-tools/guestproxy-ssl.conf
/etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default
/etc/vmware-tools/poweron-vm-default
/etc/vmware-tools/resume-vm-default
/etc/vmware-tools/scripts/
/etc/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware/
/etc/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware/network
/etc/vmware-tools/statechange.subr
/etc/vmware-tools/suspend-vm-default
/etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth.conf
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/schemas/
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/schemas/XMLSchema-hasFacetAndProperty.xsd
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/schemas/XMLSchema-instance.xsd
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/schemas/XMLSchema.dtd
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/schemas/XMLSchema.xsd
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/schemas/catalog.xml
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/schemas/datatypes.dtd
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/schemas/saml-schema-assertion-2.0.xsd
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/schemas/xenc-schema.xsd
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/schemas/xml.xsd
/etc/vmware-tools/vgauth/schemas/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd
/etc/vmware-tools/vm-support