diff -Naur irda-utils-0.9.18-orig/irdadump/main.c irda-utils-0.9.18/irdadump/main.c
--- irda-utils-0.9.18-orig/irdadump/main.c	2006-07-11 06:16:06 +0000
+++ irda-utils-0.9.18/irdadump/main.c	2008-12-31 23:24:54 +0000
@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@
 	char *readfilename = NULL;
 	int fd, c;
 
+	if(geteuid()) {
+		puts("You need to be root to run this utility.\n");
+		return 1;
+	}
+
 	while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "bc:di:lpr:s:tvw:x?")) != -1) {
 		switch (c) {
 		case 'b': /* Dumb bytes */