Solaris9, bind9, chroot, "user 'named' unknown"

[Kevin Darcy]

guice666 at gmail.com wrote:

>I posted this within mailing.unix.bind-users but judging from the
>seriously lack of activity in that group, I think it was poor choice.
>So, I decided to cross post it into here. Sorry if anybody gets tiffled
>about the crosspost.
>
>I'm trying to get Bind9 installed under chroot, but I'm running into an
>odd problem with "user 'named' unknown".
>
>I have everything in the /opt/named/ directory for the bind binary. I
>can run it just find w/out the -u named. I have only the named user
>within /opt/named/etc/passwd, /opt/named/etc/group and
>/opt/named/etc/shadow with those files with the exact same permissions
>as the ones in /etc.
>
>I run with the command: chroot /opt/named /sbin/named -u named -c
>/etc/named.conf
>Error: named: user 'named' unknown.
>
>It works w/out using chroot (ie: using /etc/ files); it works in chroot
>w/out using -u named. But I can't seem to get it working under the
>named user while under chroot.
>
>Any ideas?
>
Do you get the same results when using named's -t option instead of 
Solaris' "chroot" command?

                                                                         
                                       - Kevin