Group membership for root user changed in RHEL 6.4

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Issue

Why the root user drops all supplemental groups in RHEL 6.4?

RHEL 6.3 and older versions group membership for root is:
root : root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel

RHEL 6.4 version group membership for root is:
root : root

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4

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