I have SuSe 9.1 installed on IBM Thinkpad T41 and I'm using powersave and apm for power management. Whenever I do standby/resume the wireless card, cisco vpn client, thinkpad buttons (tpb) and vmware modules get broken so I have to restart those. Basically each time I resume the laptop from a standby I have to type in a lot of commands:

su
<password>
rmmod ipw2200
modprobe ipw2200
ifdown eth1
ifup eth1
/etc/init.d/vpnclient_init restart
/etc/init.d/vmware restart
su stan --command="tpb &"

I wrote a script to do just that, so all I have to do is launch the script and type in the root password. Is there a way to launch the script automatically every time I resume the laptop from standby? I find it inconvenient and insecure to type in root password every day 24/7, I use the laptop in a classrom and I always have people looking over my shoulder gazing at my beautiful KDE desktop.

Let me ask an easier question: is there any way to execute a script as root without typing the root password?

use sudo

I added the following to /etc/sudoers
stan ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
but that allows user stan to execute anything as root which is very insecure

How do I specify that user stan can only execute one command with no password?

man sudoers

This should do what you want


stan ALL = NOPASSWD: /pathtocommand/command

Thanks a lot!!! It works like a charm!