IMPORTANT: Update to GAM 3.45 (Invalid Input Errors)

[Jay Lee]

If you're running GAM 3.44 or older, please update to GAM 3.45 immediately. The latest available GAM version 3.45 contains critical modifications for password updates during user creation / update (gam create user and gam update user). Google has made server-side changes, requiring users to use 3.45 to ensure proper functionality. Please ensure that you update to GAM 3.45 immediately. Failure to update may result in "Invalid Input" errors.

As a quick workaround instead of upgrading, you can add "nohash" to the user update/create command in order to workaround the issue. This will cause GAM to send the new user password in plaintext over the TLS HTTPS connection.

So if you were running:

gam update user jo...@acme.com password p@ssw3rd

you should now run:

gam update user jo...@acme.com password p@ssw3rd nohash

if you're running GAM on Linux or Mac OS, you may also be able to run:

gam update user jo...@acme.com password `echo p@ssw3rd | mkpasswd -m sha-512 -s` crypt

which will pre-hash the password before giving it go GAM.

Please note that upgrading to 3.45 or newer is the preferred solution.

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Jay Lee