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When you say service account are you talking about one of these? https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts https://cloud.google.com/iam/

• Glyptodon 8y ago
  I think so? I'll see if I can double check. (My understanding is that it's a kind of psuedo-user account, and that it's being used because there's no "virtual user" to "act as the group" when it comes to automated emails and tasks or something along those lines. I wouldn't be surprised if it's more complicated and they created an actual domain user that belongs to no-one and then give the service account permission to act as it or something along those lines.) Whatever is actually happening isn't supper important though - I think somebody over here just did whatever they thought the minimum effort thing to do was without thinking or looking into it much. I'm fairly certain each group having an admin panel having a page that allows "app passwords" or Oauth2-integrations to be set up for its address/account by the group owner/admins would cover at least 90% whatever we've got going. (And once again, it is completely possible that something like that can already happen and just isn't obvious to anybody over here.)