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This tutorial is being written to help you install Drop Bear SSH server into a chroot environment. Dropbear is a relatively small SSH 2 server and client. It is an alternative lightweight program for OpenSSH and it is designed for environments with low memory and processor resources, such as embedded systems.

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By: Olivier

Why not use Jailkit? It can automate much of this work?

By: weakish

1, In section users, when creating the user home directory, we need to add the -p option, since we haven't create the home directory before. That is, instead of

mkdir home/ebal
using
mkdir -p home/ebal
2, In the same section: Use "." to distinguish user and group is deprecated. In recent versions of chown, you should use this syntax user:group.

By: Klaus

i don't understand this lol

By: Marc

IMPORTANT: transfer also the /etc/pam.d folder to the chrooted folder.