From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010809 Description of problem: ntpd after up2date doesn't do what is expected It is now running as "ntpd -U' ( drop root privs) But it is still running as root Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install and conf ntpd 2. run up2date, get latest version 3. Actual Results: ps aux ... chrismcc 31624 0.0 23.8 95456 60748 ? S 07:27 0:01 /usr/lib/mozilla/134767660 31727 0.0 0.7 2012 2004 ? SL 07:29 0:00 ntpd -U ntp root 31758 0.0 0.4 2648 1240 ? S 07:29 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 31830 0.0 0.8 4024 2256 pts/2 S 07:30 0:00 /usr/sbin/snmpd -root 31886 0.0 0.4 2288 1048 ? S 07:31 0:00 xinetd -stayaliveroot 32480 0.0 0.3 2848 904 pts/2 R 08:15 0:00 ps axu [root@wednesday root]# lsof | grep -i ntp ntpd 31727 root cwd DIR 8,6 4096 2 / ntpd 31727 root rtd DIR 8,6 4096 2 / ntpd 31727 root txt REG 8,6 252076 425205 /usr/sbin/ntpd ntpd 31727 root mem REG 8,6 454502 393194 /lib/ld-2.2.4.so ntpd 31727 root mem REG 8,6 612909 393195 /lib/libm-2.2.4.so ntpd 31727 root mem REG 8,6 165987 394016 /lib/librt-2.2.4.so ntpd 31727 root mem REG 8,6 44851 457703 /usr/lib/libcap.so.1.10 ntpd 31727 root mem REG 8,6 5716199 393096 /lib/libc-2.2.4.so ntpd 31727 root mem REG 8,6 557999 394014 /lib/libpthread-0.9.so ntpd 31727 root 0u CHR 1,3 213286 /dev/null ntpd 31727 root 1u CHR 1,3 213286 /dev/null ntpd 31727 root 2u CHR 1,3 213286 /dev/null ntpd 31727 root 3u unix 0xc8d215a0 1176481 socket ntpd 31727 root 4u IPv4 1176492 UDP *:ntp ntpd 31727 root 5u IPv4 1176493 UDP localhost:ntp ntpd 31727 root 6u IPv4 1176494 UDP wednesday.pricegrabber.com:ntp Expected Results: run as user ntp root@wednesday root]# grep ntp /etc/passwd ntp:x:38:38::/etc/ntp:/bin/nologin Additional info: [root@wednesday root]# /sbin/service ntpd restart Shutting down ntpd: [ OK ] Synchronizing with time server: [ OK ] Starting ntpd: [ OK ] [root@wednesday root]# lsof | grep -i ntp innd 967 news 4u IPv4 3533 TCP localhost:nntp (LISTEN) innd 967 news 14u unix 0xcb4ab540 3547 /var/run/news/nntpin ntpd 32594 root cwd DIR 8,6 4096 2 / ntpd 32594 root rtd DIR 8,6 4096 2 / ntpd 32594 root txt REG 8,6 252076 425205 /usr/sbin/ntpd ntpd 32594 root mem REG 8,6 454502 393194 /lib/ld-2.2.4.so ntpd 32594 root mem REG 8,6 612909 393195 /lib/libm-2.2.4.so ntpd 32594 root mem REG 8,6 165987 394016 /lib/librt-2.2.4.so ntpd 32594 root mem REG 8,6 44851 457703 /usr/lib/libcap.so.1.10 ntpd 32594 root mem REG 8,6 5716199 393096 /lib/libc-2.2.4.so ntpd 32594 root mem REG 8,6 557999 394014 /lib/libpthread-0.9.so ntpd 32594 root 0u CHR 1,3 213286 /dev/null ntpd 32594 root 1u CHR 1,3 213286 /dev/null ntpd 32594 root 2u CHR 1,3 213286 /dev/null ntpd 32594 root 3u unix 0xcc0160a0 1207246 socket ntpd 32594 root 4u IPv4 1207250 UDP *:ntp ntpd 32594 root 5u IPv4 1207251 UDP localhost:ntp ntpd 32594 root 6u IPv4 1207252 UDP wednesday.pricegrabber.com:ntp root 32499 0.0 0.5 2540 1396 pts/1 S 08:16 0:00 -bash 134767660 32594 0.0 0.7 2012 2004 ? SL 08:20 0:00 ntpd -U ntp chrismcc 32601 0.0 24.0 98164 61456 ? S 08:20 0:00 /usr/lib/mozilla ps aux shows userid '134767660' ? ? ? Maybe I'm just missing something...
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