nats: error: no results received, ensure the account used has system privileges and appropriate permissions

[khanakia]

Just did a fresh installation of nats server and when I run nats server list
it throws this error

nats: error: no results received, ensure the account used has system privileges and appropriate permissions

➜  saas curl -sf https://binaries.nats.dev/nats-io/nats-server/v2@v2.10.20 | sh

  ==> Downloading github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2@v2.10.20
  ==> Resolved version v2.10.20 to 7140387
  ==> Downloading binary for darwin arm64
  ==>   URL: https://binaries.nats.dev/binary/github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2?os=darwin&arch=arm64&version=7140387
  ==> Installing nats-server to .
  ==> Installation complete

➜  saas ./nats-server
[27940] 2025/04/12 19:22:22.535280 [INF] Starting nats-server
[27940] 2025/04/12 19:22:22.535622 [INF]   Version:  2.10.20
[27940] 2025/04/12 19:22:22.535624 [INF]   Git:      [7140387]
[27940] 2025/04/12 19:22:22.535626 [INF]   Name:     NAQYZ6QVYZGSDQLFWVUWAZ6KW5V57KOPVIP4O42JYRGOVKK5BNHTIMWS
[27940] 2025/04/12 19:22:22.535628 [INF]   ID:       NAQYZ6QVYZGSDQLFWVUWAZ6KW5V57KOPVIP4O42JYRGOVKK5BNHTIMWS
[27940] 2025/04/12 19:22:22.537365 [INF] Listening for client connections on 0.0.0.0:4222
[27940] 2025/04/12 19:22:22.537535 [INF] Server is ready

[ripienaar]

By default there is no user/password setup for system account access.

You need to configure it, here's an example:

accounts: {
    USERS: {
        users: [
            {user: a, password: a}
        ]
    },
    SYS: { 
        users: [
            {user: admin, password: changeit}
           ]
    },
}
system_account: SYS