diff -rubB irda-utils-0.9.16.orig/irdadump/shell/main.c irda-utils-0.9.16/irdadump/shell/main.c

--- irda-utils-0.9.16.orig/irdadump/shell/main.c	2004-04-01 00:55:43 +0300

+++ irda-utils-0.9.16/irdadump/shell/main.c	2004-04-13 17:46:40 +0300

@@ -86,6 +86,11 @@

 #endif

 	int fd, c;

+	if(geteuid()) {

+		puts("You need to be root to run this utility.\n");

+		return 1;

+	}

+

 	while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "bc:df:i:lps:tvx?")) != -1) {

 		switch (c) {

 		case 'b': /* Dumb bytes */