Lapsus is a program created to let laptops users use many of the features of their laptops which are supported by Linux. For now, there are two hardware-specific backends - Asus and IBM, and one 'generic' backend for all unsupported hardware. Every user, who wants to use lapsus, needs to be in a group called 'lapsus'. You can add that group via 'groupadd lapsus'. Alternatively, if you want to use a different group, you can edit /etc/dbus-1/system.d/lapsus.conf to specify a different one: Change the line that reads like this: to whatever group you wish to use; for example, the 'power' group: