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-rw-r--r--util/startup.lua2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/util/startup.lua b/util/startup.lua
index 76c901ba..997e599a 100644
--- a/util/startup.lua
+++ b/util/startup.lua
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ function startup.check_user()
if pposix.getuid() == 0 and not config.get("*", "run_as_root") then
log("error", "Danger, Will Robinson! Prosody doesn't need to be run as root, so don't do it!");
log("error", "For more information on running Prosody as root, see https://prosody.im/doc/root");
- prosody.shutdown("Refusing to run as root", 1);
+ os.exit(1); -- Refusing to run as root
end
end