Make the evdev devices owned by the video group and set mode to 0660
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Just to rehash what we discussed on IRC: evdev provides access to all keyboard traffic so normally it shouldn't be exposed to non-root users. I believe Xorg handles this problem by being suid/sgid. Not sure about wayland. So some additional research required before this change can be accepted.

Actually reviewing the issue was wayland ports side

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