Hi Luis, I think you can change whether or not you need the password in your /etc/sudoers file.
Depending on your OS, there might be a section that says something like: ## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands # %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL ## Same thing without a password # %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL I suspect what you'd need is to give some rules that say you don't need a password (NOPASSWD) for pm-suspend. I'm not sure if this is correct for all distros, and I haven't tried this myself. Dave On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Luis Ramirez <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to run a command with elevated privileges from the > rc.lua. More specifically, I am trying to get my laptop to go into sleep > mode when I hit mod+shift+'s'. Here is the code snippet from my rc.lua. > > --sleep mode > awful.key({modkey, "Shift" }, "s", awful.util.spawn_with_shell("sudo > pm-suspend")), > > > However, when I hit the keys, nothing happens. I suspect that this happens > because the of the sudo preceding pm-suspend. Does anyone have any > suggestions as to what i should do? > > Thank You, > > Luis Ramirez > >
