Setting up The udev Rules

To be able to access your devices without root privileges, nitropy requires the Nitrokey udev rules. If they are not shipped with your distribution, you can install the rules manually:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nitrokey/nitrokey-udev-rules/main/41-nitrokey.rules
sudo mv 41-nitrokey.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

The legacy rules are also shipped with libnitrokey.

You most likely want to change the owner and the permissions of this file:

sudo chown root:root /etc/udev/rules.d/41-nitrokey.rules
sudo chmod 644 /etc/udev/rules.d/41-nitrokey.rules

After installing the rules, you need to reload them:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger

If you still cannot access your device, try again after rebooting your system. If you encouter issues, look at this github comment for some debugging hints.