Description of problem:

| # ps axu
| ntp       2018  0.0  7.6  4756 4756 ?        SL   10:28   0:00 ntpd -u ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid
| 
| # cat /proc/2018/status
| Name:   ntpd
| ...
| Uid:    38      38      38      38
| Gid:    0       0       0       0
| FDSize: 32
| Groups: 0 1 2 3 4 6 10 

As you see, the privileged group-memberships are not dropped. The gid
itself can be assigned by calling it with '-u ntp:ntp' instead of '-u
ntp':

| # ps axu
| ntp       2252  0.0  9.1  5660 5660 ?        SL   10:54   0:00 ntpd -u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid
|
| # cat /proc/2252/status
| Name:   ntpd
| ...
| Uid:    38      38      38      38
| Gid:    38      38      38      38
| FDSize: 32
| Groups: 0 1 2 3 4 6 10 

But it has still the supplementary group ids.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

ntp-4.2.0.a.20040616-2