troubles chrooting oidentd

[Brian Kreulen]

Hello all, I'm in the process of creating a chroot jail for oidentd on
my Gentoo box, but I'm running into some problems. oidentd runs find
just by itself, but it refuses to  run in the chrooted environment.
Here's what I've done: 

File Structure: 
/path_to_chroot_home/ 
   bin 
   dev 
   etc 
   lib 
   tmp 
   usr 
      sbin 
   var 
      run 

The chrooted etc contains: 
   group passwd shadow ld.so.cache (regenerated in the 
environment) 

/usr/sbin contains the oidentd executable. 

dev contains: 
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1,   3 Sep  2 15:00 null 
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1,   5 Sep  2 18:05 zero 

lib contains all the library files which were outputted by 'ldd
/usr/sbin/oidentd' and 'lsof | grep  oidentd', while oidentd was running
of course. 

I realize I don't have syslogging setup, but that doesn't matter,
because I'm running oidentd with the -S and -q flags, which suppress
logging. I'll turn them on later... 

oidentd DOES run fine in the chrooted environment without any flags. But
of course it runs as root, which is completely undesirable. As soon as I
add -u1002 -g1002, nothing happens. No output, no errors, just nothing.
a 'ps -ef | grep oidentd' shows nothing. 

My chrooted /etc/passwd and /etc/group contain the appropriate user and
group, so there should be no problem. What am I missing? Do I have to
regenerate the passwd database somehow? 

I know I'm missing something small and stupid, but all my googling says
that it should be up and running. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
-- 
Brian Kreulen

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time"

--T.S. Eliot