On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 10:01 +0200, Olaf Grüttner wrote:
> When a regular user logs into the system I get the message:
> Password:
> -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
> -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
> 
> When I change the permissions of /dev/null 
> chmod 666 /dev/null 
> 
> I have no problems logging in.
> 
> I guess this is a udev problem, but I wonder why nobody else is
> complaining?
> 
> How can I fix this?

Check the contents of /lib/udev/devices - does the null entry have the
right permissions here?

The devices in this directory get copied into /dev on boot, just before
udev populates all the physical devices.

Simon.

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