ERROR: No Client Access allowed after installation and service account key upload

[Robert Smith]

Hi folks,

Thanks for this software. It seems to be exactly what I need and I look forward to getting it properly configured.

I installed GAM on linux via the install script. I followed all the steps to allow the GAM installer app and created the new project with the required permissions following along with the script steps.

During the install process I had to disable the service account key upload permission to allow the installation to proceed. I did this as instructed at https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/Authorization#authorize-service-account-key-uploads

Whenever I tried to upload the key using the gam upload sakey [admin <EmailAddress>] command at the end of the instructions (replacing <EmailAddress> with my admin email address) I got an error after authenticating: ERROR: Invalid argument with gam upload sakey >>>[admin<<< MYE...@email.com] identifying the syntax error.

When I searched through the group posts for similar issues, I found one where the person was instructed to use: gam upload sakey

That seems to have worked fine, showing "service key uploaded" and listing out project details of the service account and changes followed by: That's it! Your GAM Project is created and ready to use.

Proceed to the authentication steps.

However, all gam commands seem to still fail with ERROR: No Client Access allowed even after opening a new terminal session.

I would greatly appreciate your support diagnosing and addressing the auth issue I seem to be experiencing. Am I doing something incorrectly? Happy to provide any diagnostic info required.

FYI, when I run the gam command this is what I get:

$ gam
WARNING: Config File: /home/rob/.gam/gam.cfg, Section: DEFAULT, Item: oauth2_txt, Value: /home/rob/.gam/oauth2.txt, Not Found

GAM 7.48.05 - https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM - pyinstaller
GAM Team <google-ap...@googlegroups.com>
Python 3.14.7 64-bit final
Linux Pop 22.04 Jammy x86_64
Path: /home/rob/bin/gam7
Config File: /home/rob/.gam/gam.cfg, Section: DEFAULT, customer_id: my_customer, domain:
Time: 2026-09-10T19:05:00+00:00
Help: Syntax in file /home/rob/bin/gam7/GamCommands.txt
Help: Documentation is at https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki

Thank you!

[Ross Scroggs]

Did you do: gam oauth create

Ross

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[Robert Smith]

Hi Ross,

I created the desktop oauth app via the installer process and added the service account.

Do I need to run gam oauth create in addition the installer oauth app creation?

Thank you!

Rob

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[Ross Scroggs]

Yes. See: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/How-to-Install-GAM7#enable-gam7-client-access

Ross

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On Sep 17, 2026, at 9:55 AM, Robert Smith <rsmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Ross,

I created the desktop oauth app via the installer process and added the service account.

Do I need to run gam oauth create in addition the installer oauth app creation?

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Thank you!

Rob

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