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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Udev</title>
-<para>First compile Udev:</para>
+<para>Begin by fixing an issue by which Udev ignores the contents of its
+permissions configuration file, and instead makes certain nodes (in particular
+<filename>/dev/null</filename>) usable only by root.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../udev-027-permissions-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Now compile Udev:</para>
<screen><userinput>make udevdir=/dev</userinput></screen>