[IMP] core: allow (but still warn) running odoo as root

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/openerp/cli/server.py b/openerp/cli/server.py
index 80e3e16b922..ef9503da3fe 100644
--- a/openerp/cli/server.py
+++ b/openerp/cli/server.py
@@ -50,12 +50,11 @@ __version__ = openerp.release.version
 _logger = logging.getLogger('openerp')
 
 def check_root_user():
-    """ Exit if the process's user is 'root' (on POSIX system)."""
+    """Warn if the process's user is 'root' (on POSIX system)."""
     if os.name == 'posix':
         import pwd
-        if pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0] == 'root' :
-            sys.stderr.write("Running as user 'root' is a security risk, aborting.\n")
-            sys.exit(1)
+        if pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0] == 'root':
+            sys.stderr.write("Running as user 'root' is a security risk.\n")
 
 def check_postgres_user():
     """ Exit if the configured database user is 'postgres'.