Clarify that we're talking about the 1 and only SYSTEM user here

Signed-off-by: Tim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>

3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/resource/windows_task.rb b/lib/chef/resource/windows_task.rb
index 235bbdfd67..98e002dc54 100644
--- a/lib/chef/resource/windows_task.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/resource/windows_task.rb
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ class Chef
       def validate_user_and_password(user, password)
         if user && use_password?(user)
           if password.nil?
-            raise ArgumentError, "Can't specify a non-system user without a password!"
+            raise ArgumentError, "Cannot specify a user other than the 'SYSTEM' user without specifying a password!"
           end
         end
       end
diff --git a/spec/functional/resource/windows_task_spec.rb b/spec/functional/resource/windows_task_spec.rb
index aeefd63bc5..b59f0670b6 100644
--- a/spec/functional/resource/windows_task_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/functional/resource/windows_task_spec.rb
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ describe Chef::Resource::WindowsTask, :windows_only do
       it "raises error" do
         subject.user "Administrator"
         subject.frequency :onstart
-        expect { subject.after_created }.to raise_error("Can't specify a non-system user without a password!")
+        expect { subject.after_created }.to raise_error("Cannot specify a user other than the 'SYSTEM' user without specifying a password!")
       end
     end
 
diff --git a/spec/unit/resource/windows_task_spec.rb b/spec/unit/resource/windows_task_spec.rb
index cf4651cf52..f6489cace7 100644
--- a/spec/unit/resource/windows_task_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/unit/resource/windows_task_spec.rb
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ describe Chef::Resource::WindowsTask do
     context "when password is not passed" do
       it "raises error with non-system users" do
         allow(resource).to receive(:use_password?).and_return(true)
-        expect { resource.send(:validate_user_and_password, "Testuser", nil) }.to raise_error("Can't specify a non-system user without a password!")
+        expect { resource.send(:validate_user_and_password, "Testuser", nil) }.to raise_error("Cannot specify a user other than the 'SYSTEM' user without specifying a password!")
       end
     end
   end