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xchroot has been furnished with many new features:

• pulseaudio support
• running programs directly with xchroot without additionally specifying the chroot root directory (fetched from sudoers)
• program parameters with quotes and spaces are passed on correctly
• create desktop files for applications inside the chroot to run them with file associations and the GUI starter menu of the host system
• current working directory is preserved if it exists inside the chroot

Some improvements to xchroot have been realised: a better working --quiet switch, making use of chroot --userspec to avoid su and sudo inside the chroot and a --genuine-retval switch to directly return the return code of chroot / the program inside the chroot.

some tiny fixes for xchroot-v2.3.3: corrected group management: xchroot as user may have failed without these fixes; note: released under the same upstream version i.e. 2.3.3 (only package revision has changed).

xchroot-v2.3.3 released; xchroot/openroot between different users, security fix when users have same name but different privileges; cd into home directory; current version of the license is being discussed at http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2013-November/001358.html and http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2013-November/thread.html

xchroot-v2.3.2 released; mandatory security updates for xchrooting as user (please do also read the docs about chroot as user at elstel.org); new administration commands; extended license; --quiet switch; fix for shell to stay interactive; packages available soon.