If --exec is not to be used, I suppose this patch, which uses --startas, would be the way to go. The problem is that the ntpd child processes, which are not listed in the pidfile, are pretty slow to go away if you SIGTERM the parent process. If that doesn't disturb anyone, this patch seems to work fine.
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