[ale] udev problem

[stephen at bee.net (Stephen Cristol)]

I have two machines running CentOS 4.4 (kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL). I've  
installed the fuse kernel module on each from source (fuse.sf.net).  
The fuse installation created identical udev rule files ("99- 
fuse.rules") on both machines. The rule is:

      KERNEL=="fuse", MODE="0666"

On one machine, /dev/fuse is created with permissions of 666, as  
expected:

      $ ls -l /dev/fuse
      crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 10, 229 Dec 11 14:20 /dev/fuse
      $

On the other machine, /dev/fuse is created with permissions of 600:

      $ ls -l /dev/fuse
      crw-------  1 root root 10, 229 Dec 11 14:20 /dev/fuse
      $

The following files are identical on the two machines:

     /etc/udev/udev.conf
     /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions

I'm looking for ideas about why udev is creating these devices with  
different permissions.

Thanks,
S