On most modern systems you can't, not without going out of your way to specify --no-preserve-root. It sounds like they have a "type system" problem, e.g. you s

On most modern systems you can't, not without going out of your way to specify --no-preserve-root. It sounds like they have a "type system" problem, e.g. you shouldn't be able to give a script an ID for a "cloud site" when it was expecting an ID for an application. That is, this sort of outage should not have occurred because it should not have been representable to begin with.