• list of users
• details of a user
• membership of a user
• management of groups
• list of roles
• user assignments of a role
• list of domains

Any command can produce JSON format using -json at the end of the command.

gws user list
gws user list -limit 4
gws user membership john.doe
gws user membership [email protected]
gws user info john.doe
gws user info [email protected]
gws user aliases [email protected]
gws user suspend angelina "retired"

gws group list    
gws group members all
gws group members [email protected]

gws group info somegroup
gws group info [email protected]
gws group delete [email protected]
gws group delete [email protected]
gws group add my-group this-person [email protected]
gws group remove my-group this-person
gws group export -json > all.json    
gws --domain company.com group export -csv > company-only.csv

gws role list
gws role assignments _USER_MANAGEMENT_ADMIN_ROLE

gws domain list

gws examples

• A Google Cloud Identity domain with API access enabled
• A Google account in that domain with enough administrator privileges
• A Google Cloud Platform project with Admin SDK enabled ( https://console.developers.google.com/apis/library/admin.googleapis.com?project=YOURPROJECT )

If your Google Workspace (GSuite) account only has "Group Editor" role then you cannot use the short syntax for accounts that require the lookup of the primary domain. You can workaround this missing permission by setting an enviroment variable such as:

export GWS_PRIMARY_DOMAIN=yourhost.com

Installation requires the Go SDK.

go install github.com/emicklei/gws@latest 

• Using the Google Cloud Platform console, create a new OAuth 2.0 client ID credential in the project for which you enabled the Admin SDK.
• Download the JSON file from the list of Credentials (download button on the right).
• Save the file to gws-credentials.json in your home directory or a local directory if you need access to more organisations. gws will look for this file in the current directoy first.

gws requires the following authentication scopes to be consent per user. You will be asked to accept those on the first time you use gws. Note that accepting these scopes does not mean you as a user have access ; this is controlled in Cloud Identity (or Google Workspace/GSuite) Admin Console.

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.group ( for group management )
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.rolemanagement.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.domain.readonly

See also https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/guides/authorizing

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