Non root user

[bitcurious]

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Basic Info

Info	Please fill out this column
Ticket(s) this addresses	#107
Primary OS tested on	Ubuntu
Drone platform tested on	M300 RTK

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Description of contribution in a few bullet points

• Modified the PSDK repository to allow it to run without requiring root privileges.

Motivation and Context

• Many users of the PSDK wrapper have expressed the need to run it as a non-root user for easier integration with their applications. Noticing this demand, I made the necessary changes and updates to accommodate running the PSDK wrapper without root privileges.

How Has This Been Tested?

• Tested on a Linux-based operating system with the M300 drone, but it is applicable to any drone.

Description of documentation updates required from your changes

• Update the PSDK ROS 2 Wiki to include instructions that anyone wanting to run the PSDK wrapper as a non-root user should use the non_root_user branch.

• I have also updated the README file with instructions on how to set up the sudoers file, making it easily accessible for everyone. Please let me know if this needs to be added to the PSDK wrapper Wiki as well.

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Future work that may be required in bullet points

• Ensure that any future merge requests are also integrated into the non_root_user branch.

Screenshots (if appropriate):

[biancabnd]

Hi @bitcurious,
Thank you for taking the initiative to add instructions on how to run the wrapper with non-root user privileges. However, since this solution depends on a modified version of the Payload-SDK code, we cannot merge it into this repository.

Here is what I propose:

• Please add these instructions to your forked repository.
• I will include a reference in our repository, directing users to your instructions or other community-supported solutions.
• In parallel, we can open an issue in the official Payload-SDK repository to request support for this feature in future releases.

Thanks again for your contribution and I hope you understand why this cannot be merged.

[biancabnd]

@bitcurious we cannot fetch a Payload-SDK repository which is not the main one from DJI. This will complicate a lot things whenever we would like to upgrade the Payload-SDK versions to the latest ones. I think we can add instructions on how users could run the code with non-root settings, but that is as much as we can do as this depends on the official DJI codebase. Another way would be to open an issue to the Payload-SDK from DJI and request these changes.

I hope you understand the reasons why we cannot add this here.

[bitcurious]

Understood. I will updated it in my forked repository.