Gamepad

This article covers gamepads, joysticks and other game controllers.

With eudev

By default, only members of the input group can access gamepad and joystick devices. However, making users members of the input group has a negative security impact on which processes can obtain raw keyboard and mouse input.

To grant members of the plugdev group access to gamepads, create an udev rule. For example,

Contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/90-joysticks.rules

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="js[0-9]*", SUBSYSTEM=="input", RUN+="/bin/chown root:plugdev /dev/input/js%n"

Reload all rules with

# udevadm control --reload

Then (re)connect the game controller.