On 01/02/2018 04:36 PM, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote: > Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>: >> Can anybody explain how this is "working"? > > If you read the droproot code, I think you will quickly achieve enlightenment. Can you elaborate? In this case, from my understanding, Hal isn't starting it as root, but as ntp (by way of setuid ntp). -- Richard