Comment # 5 on bug 939191 from Bj�rn Lie

I don't have a laptop that expose this type of hardware either, so can't help
you there I'm afraid.
But this seems like something that upstream have elected to do


https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/blob/master/data/net.hadess.SensorProxy.conf

 <!-- Only root can own the service -->
  <policy user="root">
    <allow own="net.hadess.SensorProxy"/>
  </policy>