SONAR-18242 Clarify error message when creating new project without permissions during scan

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sonar-scanner-engine/src/main/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClient.java b/sonar-scanner-engine/src/main/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClient.java
index 3c5b422c77e..a53e81dc407 100644
--- a/sonar-scanner-engine/src/main/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClient.java
+++ b/sonar-scanner-engine/src/main/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClient.java
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ public class DefaultScannerWsClient implements ScannerWsClient {
         + "Please provide a user token in %s or other credentials in %s and %s.", CoreProperties.LOGIN, CoreProperties.LOGIN, CoreProperties.PASSWORD));
     }
     if (code == HTTP_FORBIDDEN) {
-      throw MessageException.of("You're not authorized to run analysis. Please contact the project administrator.");
+      throw MessageException.of("You're not authorized to analyze this project or the project doesn't exist on SonarQube" +
+        " and you're not authorized to create it. Please contact an administrator.");
     }
     if (code == HTTP_BAD_REQUEST) {
       String jsonMsg = tryParseAsJsonError(response.content());