diff --git a/doc/cla/individual/akram.md b/doc/cla/individual/akram.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cce2725e329
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/cla/individual/akram.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+France, 2018-08-19
+
+I hereby agree to the terms of the Odoo Individual Contributor License Agreement v1.0.
+
+I declare that I am authorized and able to make this agreement and sign this declaration.
+
+Signed,
+
+Akram Ben Aissi akram.benaissi@free.fr https://github.com/akram
diff --git a/odoo/cli/server.py b/odoo/cli/server.py
index 87d09cce4b7..8809cda542a 100644
--- a/odoo/cli/server.py
+++ b/odoo/cli/server.py
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ _logger = logging.getLogger('odoo')
 def check_root_user():
     """Warn if the process's user is 'root' (on POSIX system)."""
     if os.name == 'posix':
-        import pwd
-        if pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0] == 'root':
+        import getpass
+        if getpass.getuser() == 'root':
             sys.stderr.write("Running as user 'root' is a security risk.\n")
 
 def check_postgres_user():