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

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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?

Google: "chroot named bind" and read the directions

or

Create a real "named" user, retry and then think about it.