Need to change authentication mode for a new (undeployed) app

[John]

Hi,

We created an app a little while ago and set the authentication to "Google Apps." It turns out that we really need federated (OpenID) authentication, but the admin console won't allow the change. Looking at the documentation, it appears that if we delete the app, the appId will still be reserved. We really would like to use the appId that we created (goal-card), so I wonder if there's some way to get help from Google to change the authentication setting or delete the app and be able to create a new one under the current appId (goal-card).

Thanks!
John

[Brian]

Did you find a solution to this problem? I created my app using OpenID, but when I ran into some data upload problems Google asked I change it to Google Accts auth. After uploading data, I tried to change it back to OpenID, but now the change won't stick -- which makes my app useless...

[Roberto]

I have the same problem with all of my apps, I guess it is related to the 1.7.3 released recently, which was supposed to fix an issue right on this problem.
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=483

Ironically I was perfectly able to change authentication type until a few days ago, when the issue was fixed.

Roberto