I forgot to mention that this is where udev introduced the change from 0666 to 0620: http://www.mail-archive.com/lfs-book@linuxfromscratch.org/msg09416.html
and this is where 0620 was mentioned in Debian (but for makedev, not udev): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=244751/0620#42 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/980835 Title: tty[1-6] is now root:tty 0660 instead of root:root 0600 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/980835/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs