Odd behavior by gam update group

[Johnnie Adams]

Hi, folks,

     We've had some provisioning snafus lately, and one of them led me to interesting behavior by GAM. Note: The user foobar does not exist:

gam update group load...@groups.ualr.edu add member user foo...@ualr.edu

Group: load...@groups.ualr.edu, Add 1 Member

  Group: load...@groups.ualr.edu, Member: foo...@ualr.edu, Added: Role: MEMBER

     When I check this information in Reporting, I find this:

John Adams added other foo...@ualr.edu to group load...@groups.ualr.edu with role member

     And when I check the Group itself, the user is there but not named.

Thanks,

     John A

--

John Adams
Senior Linux/Middleware Administrator  | Information Technology Services
+1-501-916-3010 | jxa...@ualr.edu | http://ualr.edu/itservices
UA Little Rock

Reminder:  IT Services will never ask for your password over the phone or in an email. Always be suspicious of requests for personal information that come via email, even from known contacts.  For more information or to report suspicious email, visit IT Security.

[Jay Lee]

It's not immediately obvious to me what the issue/problem is here. Can you clarify what behavior you expected vs. what happened?

Jay Lee

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GAM for Google Workspace" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-apps-man...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-apps-manager/CAGfWJCMkQBA9zFwy3wjnTuAxQi7fK9ZVunJjZ2_hmKbCvXv7OA%40mail.gmail.com.

[Ross Scroggs]

Invalid in-domain email addresses are a lot like out-of-domain email addresses in a group, they don't have a status or name.

For members without a name, GAM shows Unknown.

You can delete them from the group.

Ross

----

Ross Scroggs

Ross.S...@gmail.com

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-apps-manager/CA%2BVVBp-3D2F%3Dj2hti1fgaeBmN5QnYQV6Vx4-RjvBJyxDX_oztQ%40mail.gmail.com.

[John Adams]

What I expected to happen is for the add user operation to fail. What happened was that it succeeded.

[Ross Scroggs]

Google will add almost any syntactically valid email address to a group.

For external email addresses, somtimes you can't delete them from the group by their email address,

Google claims that they don't exist in the grouup, you have to delete them by their id.

Ross

----

Ross Scroggs

Ross.S...@gmail.com

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-apps-manager/6b51a450-81db-4b70-8b5d-5ca367587932n%40googlegroups.com.