Authorizing the Google Service Account

Disclaimer: The following instructions are correct at the time of writing. Google feature names and links may change over time. Correct as of April 2019. View the Google help topic.

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have your Unique ID that you created from setting up your service account.

Procedure

1. Go to https://admin.google.com and log in as an admin user.
2. Click the Security card, scroll down and click API reference.
3. Make sure that the Enable API access option is selected. If not, select it and click SAVE.
4. Scroll down and click Advanced Settings.
5. From the Authentication section, click Manage API client access.
   
6. On the Manage API client access page, under the Authorized API clients section, for the Client Name, enter the Unique ID for the Google Service Account that you created.
7. In the One or More API Scopes, copy and paste this:
   • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.group.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.orgunit.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user.readonly
8. Click Authorize.
   Google displays the scopes as:
   

Go back to the original articles to continue the steps: https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004033739/