Re: Switch to user failed due to configuration error. Contact your System Administrator

Peter Crowther <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:51:37 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.windows-nt.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/10/22 Jaime Eduardo Rodríguez Rodríguez <[email protected]>:
> I have a cvsnt 2.5.04 server installed on Windows Server 2003.
[...]
> If I try to connect with "user" I receive the error: "Switch to user failed due to configuration error.  Contact your System Administrator"
> If I do with "cvsadmin", I connect properly.

What Windows user does the CVSNT server run as?  It should be
LocalSystem - the most frequent cause of the error message above is
someone trying to change that.

If this error still happens when the service is running as
LocalSystem, what is the CVSROOT you're using in each case?

- Peter
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