diff --git a/system-users.changes b/system-users.changes
index 20b7664..a87fecc 100644
--- a/system-users.changes
+++ b/system-users.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Feb 12 09:41:04 UTC 2021 - Reinhard Max <max@suse.com>
+
+- Revert /var/lib/ntp to the ownership and permissions it had in
+  the ntp package. It should be owned by root and not be writable
+  by the ntp user, because it is the base of ntpd's chroot
+  envoronment and the ntp user is not supposed to log in anyway.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan 14 16:30:39 UTC 2021 - Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/system-users.spec b/system-users.spec
index 22d956e..55c4afc 100644
--- a/system-users.spec
+++ b/system-users.spec
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ test -x /usr/sbin/usermod && /usr/sbin/usermod -s /bin/bash nobody ||:
 
 %files -n system-user-ntp
 %defattr(-,root,root)
-%dir %attr(0750,ntp,ntp) %{_localstatedir}/lib/ntp
+%dir %attr(0755,root,root) %{_localstatedir}/lib/ntp
 %{_sysusersdir}/system-user-ntp.conf
 
 %changelog