laptop mode. Did I just do something I shouldn't have?

[mreff555]

I have been trying to get laptop mode tools working. The tutorial here is not all that helpful and somewhat out of date
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Power_management/HOWTO

Here isthe problem. I want functionality such as being able to press the suspend button and put my machine to sleep. The problem is that I need
root access to do this. My way of getting around this is by changing the GID of /sys/power/state to wheel, and making it writable to the wheel group. Honestly, given the purpose of the wheel group, it seems like that is how it should have been set up.

Is there a better way of doing this on a minimal system?
Am I going to break something?
Is this a huge security flaw?

thanks,

[Ant P.]

Aren't you using acpid to handle that button?

[mreff555]

doesn't seem to work. No errors or anything. Just doesn't work. Does it need to be configured?