Anyone know how to hibernate using suspend2 without having to type your password in (at either hibernate or resume)?

using the shutdown menu hibernate requires a password. You can get around this by hibernating from the command line however you need to be root (or sudo) which requires a password again. I'm using ubuntu in my car pc, so typing gets really complicated.

thanks for the help

In the suspend2 HOWTO:

http://www.suspend2.net/HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1

If you want users to be able to suspend, use visudo and add the following lines to your /etc/sudoers file, changing the /usr/local/sbin/hibernate to the path it was installed (/usr/sbin/hibernate in the Debian & RPM packages)

Host_Alias LOCALHOST=localhost,<your hostname>
ALL LOCALHOST=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/hibernate *

See man sudoers(5) for more information. Users will then be able to do sudo /usr/local/sbin/hibernate

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I hope you have some kind of button that triggers the hibernate. In gentoo wiki you have some info to connect buttons to suspend :

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Softwar..._button_events

Thanks Biophysics, I must have overlooked that part in the suspend2 howto. Also the ACPID works great also! Thanks!!!

-Kev