diff --git a/chapter06/devices.xml b/chapter06/devices.xml
index 24a9aa58d..4d6d1a245 100644
--- a/chapter06/devices.xml
+++ b/chapter06/devices.xml
@@ -35,10 +35,11 @@ populate <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> ourselves.  Begin by mounti
 <para>Since we do not have the Udev package installed yet, we'll create a
 minimal set of device nodes to use for building:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>mknod -m 600 /dev/console c 5 1
-mknod -m 600 /dev/null c 1 3
-mknod -m 600 /dev/zero c 1 5
-mknod -m 600 /dev/ptmx c 5 2</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>mknod -m 622 /dev/console c 5 1
+mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3
+mknod -m 666 /dev/zero c 1 5
+mknod -m 666 /dev/ptmx c 5 2
+chown root:tty /dev/{console,ptmx}</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>There are some symlinks and directories required by LFS that are not created by
 Udev, so we create those ourselves here:</para>