antirez/redis — pull request #1716 by itamarhaber (2014-04-30 12:53:34+00:00)
Title: Can't stop Redis when configured with a password

This fix adds authentication to the stop verb (if configured in the conf file). Without this, the server (i.e. my VM) won't shutdown as it keeps waiting for Redis to stop.

An alternative approach would be to sigterm the process but I didn't want to change the current logic too much.