[Question] On defining udev rules in system configuration

[Rodrigo Morales]

* The problem

I've defined the following udev-rule in my configuration (full
configuration attached)

#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
(... some omitted lines ...)

  (udev-service-type
    config =>
    (udev-configuration
     (inherit config)
     ;; SEE: 
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/459874/udev-doesnt-want-to-run-chgrp-and-chmod
     (rules
      `(,(udev-rule
          "90-backlight.rules"
          (string-append
           "ACTION==\"add\","
           "SUBSYSTEM==\"backlight\","
           "RUN+=\"/run/current-system/profile/bin/chgrp video
/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness\""
           "\n"
           ))
        ,@(udev-configuration-rules config)))))

(... some omitted lines ...)
#+END_SRC

This made it possible to change the gorup for the file (see proof below)

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
ls -l /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root video 4096 Sep 17 20:48
/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
#+END_EXAMPLE

I'm user =rdrg= (see proof below)

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
whoami
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
#+begin_example
rdrg
#+end_example

I belong to group =video= (see proof below)

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
cat /etc/group
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
#+begin_example
root:x:0:
wheel:x:999:rdrg,rdrg-experiments
users:x:998:
nogroup:x:997:
tty:x:996:
dialout:x:995:
kmem:x:994:
input:x:993:
video:x:992:rdrg,rdrg-experiments,gdm
audio:x:991:rdrg,rdrg-experiments
netdev:x:990:rdrg,rdrg-experiments
lp:x:989:
disk:x:988:
floppy:x:987:
cdrom:x:986:
tape:x:985:
kvm:x:984:guixbuilder01,guixbuilder02,guixbuilder03,guixbuilder04,guixbuilder05,guixbuilder06,guixbuilder07,guixbuilder08,guixbuilder09,guixbuilder10
guixbuild:x:30000:guixbuilder01,guixbuilder02,guixbuilder03,guixbuilder04,guixbuilder05,guixbuilder06,guixbuilder07,guixbuilder08,guixbuilder09,guixbuilder10
messagebus:x:983:
polkitd:x:982:
geoclue:x:981:
colord:x:980:
avahi:x:979:
scanner:x:978:
gdm:x:977:
sshd:x:976:
#+end_example

But I can't edit that file as a regular user (see proof below)

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
echo Exit code: $?
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
bash: /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness: Permission denied
Exit code: 1
#+END_EXAMPLE

It is worth mentioning that I can edit that file as =sudo=

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
echo Exit code: $?
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
0
Exit code: 0
#+END_EXAMPLE

* The questions

1. Why can't I edit =/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness=
even though the file belongs to the =video= group?
2. What's the proper way to make it possible to edit
=/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness=? I need to do this
because I want to define a keybinding in my windows manager that
changes the brightness.

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