If using a USB serial converter, as many 3d printers seem to, we can find the device here:
ls -lah /dev/ttyUSB0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Aug 27 15:41 /dev/ttyUSB0
As you can see, the device is owned by root
and in the group dialout
.
In order to allow ourselves, or our Octoprint service account, access we need to add that user to the dialout
group.