Commit df1df7ea authored by Nisha Gopalakrishnan's avatar Nisha Gopalakrishnan

BUG#17324415:GETTING MYSQLD --HELP AS ROOT EXITS WITH 1

Analysis
--------

Running 'MYSQLD --help --verbose' as ROOT user without
using '--user' option displays the help contents but
aborts at the end with an exit code '1'.

While starting the server, a validation is performed to
ensure when the server is started as root user, it should
be done using '--user' option. Else we abort. In case
of help, we dump the help contents and abort.

Fix:
---
During the validation, we skip aborting the server incase
we are using the help option under the condition mentioned
above.

NOTE: Test case has not been added since it requires using 
      'root' user.
parent c1fa843d
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......@@ -1681,7 +1682,7 @@ static struct passwd *check_user(const char *user)
}
if (!user)
{
if (!opt_bootstrap)
if (!opt_bootstrap && !opt_help)
{
sql_print_error("Fatal error: Please read \"Security\" section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root!\n");
unireg_abort(1);
......
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