diff --git a/ckanext/datastore/plugin.py b/ckanext/datastore/plugin.py
index ce78381367f..6ce0785d5ca 100644
--- a/ckanext/datastore/plugin.py
+++ b/ckanext/datastore/plugin.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def configure(self, config):
         # Check whether we are running one of the paster commands which means
         # that we should ignore the following tests.
         import sys
-        if sys.argv[0].split('/')[-1] == 'paster':
+        if sys.argv[0].split('/')[-1] == 'paster' and sys.argv[1] == "datastore":
             log.warn("Omitting permission checks because you are "
                         "running paster commands.")
             return