Lost write permission on /dev/null

My wife was unable to log on this morning and after investigation I saw
that she did not have write access to /dev/null; once I fixed the
permissions she was able to log on as usual. Does anybody have a
suggestion as to what would be mucking around with /dev/null's permission
mask? Thanks.

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