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foxwendy
foxwendy

Reputation: 2929

Dummy account in Google Developer Console?

After we created a new project in Google developer console, we see one App Engine service account and one Google APIs service account already there in "Permission" page. But we have no client Ids in credential. Those two accounts seems to be dummy, what are they for?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 647

Answers (1)

pulkitsinghal
pulkitsinghal

Reputation: 4084

They are not exactly dummy.

Those are "service" accounts meant to be used if you want an application or utility/tool that is sitting inside/on your app engine VM or compute engine VM, to perform actions that will require authentication ... having service accounts should ideally let you can skip the oauth step which would otherwise require browser access and user intervention ... things that an automated process in a VM should not have to deal with.

I'm guessing they were provisioned automatically with ease of use (? shrug) in mind so folks wouldn't have to go about creating them.

  1. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/faq#serviceaccounts
  2. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/authentication

Upvotes: 1

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