Why do I have to run as super user to see pedals even though I own the entire X-Plane 11 folder

Question

Computer: Dell XPS 8700 Intel core i7-4770 CPU @ 3.4GHz x 8 64Bit 12GB RAM
Graphics: GEForce GTX 750 Ti
Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.3

Simulator: X-Plane 11.11

I cannot get XPlane11 to find the CH Pro Pedals as User. I've tried creating the following udev rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d with no success:

# "CH PRODUCTS CH PRO PEDALS USB "
SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="068e", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="00f2", ENV{ID_INPUT_ACCELEROMETER}="0"
KERNEL=="event*", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="068e", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="00f2", ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}="1"

The simulator finds pedals as super user, implying I have an object ownership issue. But, I've run sudo chown -R on the X-Plane 11 directory without fixing the issue. What else should I check the ownership on?

Comments

Solved: I turned out my user account was not a member of the "input" group. Adding to the group allowed running XPlane 11 from the user account with pedals.

Answer 1

I am not a Linux user so I don't have personal experience with this, but if you haven't yet seen this article from the X-Plane Developer blog, it might have some helpful info: https://developer.x-plane.com/2017/10/linux-users-please-dont-run-x-plane-with-sudo/

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Thanks for replying but I'd already seen the article and changed ownership as suggested. Still have to run as super user.