diff -up fping-3.0/fping.8.capnetraw fping-3.0/fping.8
--- fping-3.0/fping.8.capnetraw	2011-12-28 08:32:17.000000000 -0500
+++ fping-3.0/fping.8	2012-02-18 14:58:14.023533041 -0500
@@ -87,10 +87,7 @@ fping a list of IP addresses as input an
 .IP \fB-e\fR 5
 Show elapsed (round-trip) time of packets.
 .IP \fB-f\fR 5
-Read list of targets from a file.  This option can only be used by the
-root user.  Regular users should pipe in the file via stdin:
-
-% fping < targets_file
+Read list of targets from a file.
 
 .IP \fB-g\fR 5
 Generate a target list from a supplied IP netmask, or a starting and ending IP.
@@ -211,11 +208,9 @@ command line arguments, and 4 for a syst
 Ha! If we knew of any we would have fixed them!
 .SH RESTRICTIONS
 If certain options are used (i.e, a low value for -i and -t, and a 
-high value for -r) it is possible to flood the network. This program
-must be installed as setuid root in order to open up a raw socket,
-or must be run by root. In order to stop mere mortals from hosing the
-network (when fping is installed setuid root) , normal users can't specify 
-the following:
+high value for -r) it is possible to flood the network. In order to
+stop mere mortals from hosing the network (when fping is installed
+setuid root), normal users can't specify the following:
 .nf
 
  -i n   where n < 10  msec
diff -up fping-3.0/fping.c.capnetraw fping-3.0/fping.c
--- fping-3.0/fping.c.capnetraw	2011-12-22 10:05:18.000000000 -0500
+++ fping-3.0/fping.c	2012-02-18 15:01:04.188654114 -0500
@@ -415,7 +415,6 @@ int main( int argc, char **argv )
 #endif
     struct protoent *proto;
     char *buf;
-    uid_t uid;
         int tos = 0; 
 
 #ifndef IPV6
@@ -425,17 +424,6 @@ int main( int argc, char **argv )
 #endif
     HOST_ENTRY *cursor;
 
-    /* check if we are root */
-
-    if( geteuid() )
-    {
-        fprintf( stderr,
-            "This program can only be run by root, or it must be setuid root.\n" );
-
-        exit( 3 );
-
-    }/* IF */
-
     /* confirm that ICMP is available on this machine */
 #ifndef IPV6
     if( ( proto = getprotobyname( "icmp" ) ) == NULL ) 
@@ -522,12 +510,6 @@ int main( int argc, char **argv )
 #endif
 #endif
 
-    if( ( uid = getuid() ) )
-    {
-        seteuid( getuid() );
-
-    }/* IF */
-
     prog = argv[0];
     ident = getpid() & 0xFFFF;