Running irc as non-root

[Kx499]

I had to do xhost + before the Su command, but it is not too secure. I wonder of there's a better way....thinking maybe ssh -x?

[hhmatt]

This is the old forums but I think it's probably going to be similar to what you need to do to BT5 to run programs as a unprivileged user.
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...backtrack.html

I run IRC on another box entirely.

[Kx499]

thanks everyone for the suggestions. I'm going to use xchat and xhost + to allow it to have access to the root x session when I need to use irc on my backtrack box. I want to try ssh with -X switch to see how that works when I get some time, but anyways thanks again for everyones responses