How do I add myself to the group input?

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how do I add myself to the group input?

I am puzzled since I tried sudo usermod -a -G input $user but nothing happens. There is no group input in /etc/group, but sudo addgroup input complains that addgroup: The group 'input' already exists. and a listing of /dev/input lists several devices with group id input

Any help is welcome.

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Hi @btreut,
can you give a bit of context, why do you want to add your Endless user to the input group?

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I have a framebuffer application, which requires access to mouse/touchpad events and the easiest way (on other Debian derivates like Q4OS) is to add me (and other users who are supposed to use it) to the group input.

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The confusion here is probably because the input group is defined in /lib/group because it is a group provided by the base ostree.
I suspect you could duplicate the input group definition in /etc/group and then add yourself to it.

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I duplicated input in /etc/group with
sudo grep input /lib/group >> /etc/group
used
sudo usermod -a -G input $USER
to add myself to the group input.

The result looks good, I did not encounter any side effects.

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