'You are not authorized to access this API' when setting a vacation message for a user

Mike Basso Super Admin

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Apr 26, 2017, 5:08:11 AM4/26/17

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I have used GADS to pull user accounts from groups. Today I tried to set a vacation message for a user using the command:

gam user jsmith vacation on subject "Auto-Reply-Out of Office" message "To Whom it May Concern, John Smith is currently on leave. Please direct any messages that require an action to Jane Doe, jd...@domain.com. Dr. John Doe - Principal\n\n" startdate 2017-04-26 enddate 2017-04-26

and i get this response:

ERROR: 600 - Unknown Error: {'status': 403, 'body': '<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n<TITLE>You are not authorized to access this API</TITLE>\n</HEAD>\n<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">\n<H1>You are not authorized to access this API</H1>\n<H2>Error 403</H2>\n</BODY>\n</HTML>\n', 'reason': 'You are not authorized to access this API'}

✉ Kevin Melillo

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Apr 26, 2017, 8:13:08 AM4/26/17

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Can you try using the full email address like the following:

gam user jsm...@domain.com vacation on subject "Auto-Reply-Out of Office" message "To Whom it May Concern, John Smith is currently on leave. Please direct any messages that require an action to Jane Doe, jd...@domain.com. Dr. John Doe - Principal\n\n" startdate 2017-04-26 enddate 2017-04-26

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Mike Basso Super Admin

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Apr 26, 2017, 8:45:48 AM4/26/17

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It is working now. It may have been because I was logged into google admin in 2 sessions. one with my regular admin account and the other with my super admin account.

I uograded GADS to 4.2 and in doing so I authenticated with my super admin account. When finished upgrading the command works (although I had the same start and end date...but that wasn't why it originally failed)

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