move auth() to runNormal() thus this fix only affects normal cases

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/stat.cpp b/tools/stat.cpp
index 89ff7fef0ca..e1eda8db3c1 100644
--- a/tools/stat.cpp
+++ b/tools/stat.cpp
@@ -370,8 +370,6 @@ namespace mongo {
                 return -1;
             }
 
-            auth();
-
             _sleep = getParam( "sleep" , _sleep );
             _all = hasParam( "all" );
             if ( _many )
@@ -425,6 +423,8 @@ namespace mongo {
             int rowCount = getParam( "rowcount" , 0 );
             int rowNum = 0;
 
+            auth();
+
             BSONObj prev = stats();
             if ( prev.isEmpty() )
                 return -1;