Error 401 authError

[Brian Lee]

Recieving this error: 
ERROR: 401: authError - Request had invalid authentication credentials. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential. See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.

Command I ran just before getting this error: gam all users print othercontacts emailmatchpattern "joh...@totallyreal.com"

Gets through about 460/2000 users before encountering this error message. All other commands and processes I've ran are working just fine. Checked Google Auth Platform clients and GAM is marked as enabled. 

[Paul Ogier]

Brian, the reason it stops the whole run instead of skipping one user is in how GAM handles the error. For print othercontacts, GAM only treats serviceNotAvailable, forbidden, permissionDenied and failedPrecondition as per-user errors (PEOPLE_ACCESS_THROW_REASONS in gamlib/glgapi.py). A 401 authError isn't on that list, so it ends the command. The Drive and Calendar commands do include authError and just warn and move on, which is likely why everything else works for you.

So the run dying is GAM's handling. Why that one user got a 401 I can't tell from here. Run the account it stopped on by itself (the last user GAM printed before the error):

gam user use...@yourdomain.com print othercontacts emailmatchpattern "jo...@example.com"

If that gives the 401 again, it's something about that account. If it works, the 401 was likely timing on the long run rather than the account.

To get through all 2000 regardless, run each user in its own process so one failure doesn't stop the rest (the pattern from the Bulk Processing wiki page):

gam config auto_batch_min 1 redirect csv ./othercontacts.csv multiprocess all users print othercontacts emailmatchpattern "jo...@example.com"