[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#440573: base: whatever is creating /dev/root gives it the wrong permissions

[Tony Lill]

Package: base
Severity: normal

Permissions of /dev/root after a reboot:

brw------- 1 root root 9, 1 2007-08-30 12:44 /dev/root

Permissions required for amanda to backup the filesystem:

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 1 2007-08-30 12:45 /dev/root

udev gives block nodes the correct permissions, but apparently /dev/root is
not created by udev, and I can't find anything in /etc/init.d that creates it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.11
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)