how to list members of the group using gam

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Yida Zhang

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Jul 12, 2018, 1:26:40 AM7/12/18
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Hi 

how to list members of the group using gam

thanks

Ross Scroggs

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Avrohom Eliezer Friedman

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I've been doing 

gam whatis gr...@domain.com

Also gives you the members - but in a diff format with diff info. One of the reasons I like it is that the command is short, gives the number of ppl in the group and it's the same command when I want to look up info on a user "gam whatis user@domain"


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Peter Smulders

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Jul 13, 2018, 10:04:17 AM7/13/18
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@Avrohom: 


gam whatis gr...@domain.com

Also gives you the members - but in a diff format with diff info. One of the reasons I like it is that the command is short, gives the number of ppl in the group and it's the same command when I want to look up info on a user "gam whatis user@domain"


This is a bad idea in general. Although it works, it may change in the future; the 'whatis' command is meant only to tell you what a particular item is (group, alias, user, etc). You can not rely on the 'bonus' information being provided. Instead, you are better off learning the proper use of the proper commands:

$ gam info user some...@yourdomain.com
$ gam info group some....@yourdomain.com

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Adam Johnson

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Jul 1, 2022, 6:36:06 PM7/1/22
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I know it's an old thread, but it came up in my search, so maybe others are still referring to it. I've been using:

gam print group-members group <EmailAddressOfGroup> fields "role type delivery status useremail"

I found I had to enclose the list of fields I wanted in quotes, since "role" is also a keyword for the "print group-members" command - it would let you print out only members, or only managers, or only owners.

I did find that the useremail field might be an alias rather than a user's primary email if they were added to the group when that alias was their primary address.

Also, deleted users can show up in group membership lists - if you're printing out the Status field, it will be blank for deleted users (as well as external-to-your-domain(s) users)

The fields I was including are
Role:  OWNER, MANAGER, MEMBER
Type: USER, GROUP
Status: <blank>, ACTIVE, SUSPENCDED, ARCHIVED
Delivery (shows up in csv as delivery_settings) - ALL_MAIL, NONE, DISABLED, DAILY, DIGEST

Ross Scroggs

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Jul 1, 2022, 6:46:34 PM7/1/22
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Adam,

You can use a comma separated list rather than s space separated list.
gam print group-members group <EmailAddressOfGroup> fields role,type,delivery,status,useremail

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Michael J McNally

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Feb 15, 2023, 11:55:42 AM2/15/23
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Running the exact command given above, I get "ERROR: 400: Invalid field selection delivery - invalidParameter".
Documentation on the wiki states  fields <list,of,fields>. Is there a way to get a list of what the currently valid fields are?

Current goal is to export all group members including role and subscription settings.

Thanks.

Arnaud Lienard

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Mar 24, 2023, 5:50:52 AM3/24/23
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Hi all,

I'm asked to list the members of a group but this group contains only groups, the users are in these subgroups.

Example : Gr...@domain.com contains Grou...@domain.com, Grou...@domain.com, Group-M...@domain.com

When I run the command "gam print group-members group Gr...@domain.com", it only shows me the name of the groups contained in Gr...@domain.com and not the name of the people contained in these 3 sub-groups.

Is there a command to list the users who are in the group and the subgroups?

Thank you
Arnaud

Ross Scroggs

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Mar 24, 2023, 8:41:55 AM3/24/23
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Arnaud,

Standard or Advanced


]gam print group-members group Gr...@domain.com recursive

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Arnaud Lienard

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Mar 24, 2023, 9:05:01 AM3/24/23
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Hi Ross,

Thank you, this command line is perfect :-)

Arnaud

EDWARD ARAGON

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Aug 14, 2023, 5:06:53 PM8/14/23
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Greetings,  Is there a command to just show the managers or owners of the group?  Thank you in advance

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EDWARD ARAGON

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Aug 15, 2023, 5:15:28 PM8/15/23
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Thank you so much! You saved me valuable time. These are student email groups consisting of hundreds of members & school admins were the managers or message moderators, and they needed updating coz the school admins have changed.

Shubham Pawar

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Apr 16, 2024, 8:51:15 AM4/16/24
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Is there any command to list group(internal or external) where the user has subscribed or added, Was trying below command but no luck


gam print groups query memberkey='<user email address inc @Domain>' todrive 

Ross Scroggs

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Apr 16, 2024, 12:16:24 PM4/16/24
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I'm not clear on the question, send me a Meet/Zoom invitation.

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Maj Marshall Giguere

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Apr 16, 2024, 12:27:36 PM4/16/24
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If you are trying to find just the groups a user is subscribed to:

> gam print users select <us...@example.com> groups todrive

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Ross Scroggs

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Shubham Pawar

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Hi Ross,

So basically I have tried the below command to get group list both internal and external, but I am getting only internal group details. I am looking for group list where user is added both internal and external groups

    1.  gam print groups query memberkey='<user email address inc @Domain>' todrive
    1. gam user shu...@dev.searce.me show groups

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    Ross Scroggs

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    Apr 18, 2024, 11:18:12 AM4/18/24
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    The Directory API (https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/reference/rest/v1/groups/list) only deals with groups in your domain, it knows nothing of users in external domain groups.

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    laurent

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    May 23, 2024, 6:07:48 PM5/23/24
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    so there is no technical way to list or remove an external group (given a user having an unwanted external group)?

    Adam Johnson

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    May 24, 2024, 10:01:03 PM5/24/24
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    Laurent,

    You would not expect to have admin rights in another organization's Google domain, would you?  That's what it would take to list members of groups belonging to another domain.  For that matter, users in your domain could be added to email lists in non-google systems, for which Google's servers would not even store the membership information.

    That being said, if it IS a google group, the user may be able to look at the details of a message they receive from such a group to see which group name it was sent from, and should have an unsubscribe option.

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    Roman Gordienko

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    Nov 20, 2024, 5:12:42 AM11/20/24
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    Hi, the first thing I wanted to say is: "thanks for such a cool tool as GAM ADV". Second - I had a question, can I some how get a list of users who are granted access to GAM (GAM-API) through the execution of a command gam?
    I use a command - gam user us...@domain.com check serviceaccount only for checking each individual user, if it outputs FALSE - not provided, if TRUE - provided. But how to see all users because the output alone is too long to test FALSE or TRUE?

    Is this not what I need? The question of "security" simply arose when we worked with GAM: then we go to Google Cloud Credentials, to Domain Wide Delegation, and so on. But when we set which user to "start working" from at the stage of the script, when he asks: "Are you ready to authorize GAM to manage Google Workspace user data and settings? (yes or no) yes", we do not grant this user access to GAM? Maybe I didn't ask the question correctly, but I highlighted the important thing at the beginning.

    Thank for your future reply

    Ross Scroggs

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    Nov 20, 2024, 10:28:25 AM11/20/24
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    The following command checks to see if service account access is enabled; us...@domain.com is any valid email address in the domain.
    If you use your super admin email address you will avoid incorrect FALSE results that might occur if the regular us...@domain.com 
    is in a OU that disables Gmail/Drive/...

    gam user us...@domain.com check serviceaccount - checks to see if service account access is enabled.

    Service account access does not grant users access to GAM, it grants GAM access to the users Drive/Gmail/Calendar data.

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    Roman Gordienko

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    Nov 22, 2024, 4:21:19 AM11/22/24
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    Thank you for the response! I understand how to check if GAM has access to a user's data. However, what I'm trying to determine is who can use GAM commands to manage Google Workspace (e.g., admins or specific users). Is there a way to get a list of users who have this access?
    Or, if I misunderstood the access structure, can you clarify how GAM access is controlled?

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    Ross Scroggs

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    Nov 22, 2024, 9:14:58 AM11/22/24
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    GAM is a progrm installed on a computer, users with allowed access to the computer have access to GAM.

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    Adam Johnson

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    Since GAM is an awesome convenient wrapper around Google API calls, I suspect the real question is:
    Can Gam query for users who have API access permissions?  Or maybe just the admin level API permissions ?

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    Ross Scroggs

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