Chat - change Space settings

[Russ Michel]

Longtime GAM user, but new to managing Chat with GAM. My company is getting rid of Slack, and moving to Chat.   We are not concerned about migrating content, just the channels and members.   With 200 channels to duplicate, I really want to semi-automate the process with GAM.  After updating my API authorizations, I can create Spaces, add managers and members, etc.  I have also created the required Chat Bot.  But I am having difficulty updating Chat Space permissions, such as  managemembersandgroups,  managewebhooks, and  modifyspacedetails. 

gam user ad...@mycompany.com update chatspace spaces/ZzZzAx123456 managemembersandgroups managers

When I use the above command, where ad...@mycompany.com is the account I've been using for years with GAM, I get this error:  

Chat Admin:  ad...@mycompany.com  (asadmin), Chat Space: spaces/ ZzZzAx123456, Update Failed: Updating permission settings with admin access is not supported. To update permission settings, authenticate as a user without admin access.

I am really confused about the asadmin bit, as well as the authenticate as a user without admin access, which seems somewhat oxymoronic.  I tried to setup GAM with my normal, non-admin user account, (after backing up the GAMconfig folder), but:

gam user non-adm...@mycompany.com update chatspace spaces/ZzZzAx123456 managemembersandgroups managers 

just results in:

Update Failed: Permission denied to perform the requested action on the specified resource, or the resource doesn't exist. 

I think I might be missing steps in the GCP project, or something in GWS admin, but I'm not sure what to try next.  Any guidance from the experts?  TIA!

  

[Ross Scroggs]

The command has to nbe run by a manager of the chatspace.

Ross

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[Russ Michel]

Thanks, Ross!  

I'd already tried that...  I created the Space with my non-admin account, so I became the Space Manager.  I just tried again: 

Russ@RM-T5820 ~
$ gam user russ.michel@****.com create chatspace type space collaboration displayname "RUSS-TEST" description "Testing GAM" returnidonly
spaces/AAQA5dJPnV8

I confirmed that the new space exists and that I am Space Manager in the GWS GUI, then attempted a permissions update command.   

Russ@RM-T5820 ~
$ gam user russ.michel@******.com update chatspace spaces/AAQA5dJPnV8 managemembersandgroups managers
Chat Admin: russ.michel@******.com(asadmin), Chat Space: spaces/AAQA5dJPnV8, Update Failed: Permission denied to perform the requested action on the specified resource, or the resource doesn't exist.

I even waited a several minutes before trying again.