[cvsnt] Re: Impersonation failed - configuration error

[Tony Hoyle]

He, Hodgen [He, Qi] wrote:

> Dear all,
> We are using CVSNT and Wincvs.
> I can use SSPI to login but if using Pserver, I get the error "Impersonation failed - configuration error".

The account doesn't have enough rights to impersonate.

> The CVSNT service is started by a local admin account.

This is probably why - only LocalSystem has all the correct rights by default.  You need
to grant seTcbPrivilege and possibly seImpersonationPrivilege to the account (if using NT4 or an
older CVSNT also seCreateTokenPrivilege.  (

This is all in the Faq, by the way :)

Tony