That's interesting, I wonder what the proper solution to stuff like this is. For example, what should Google do if someone decided to delete an account that is associated with a service like App Engine? Should they:
- Disallow the deletion of an account until it is completely dis-associated with any Google services? Would be good, but it also seems like it would be technically challenging because the services seem to be very separate from each other, with their own sub-systems and ways of managing accounts. - Delete all services associated with the account? This will just cause lots of anger as entire web presences are wiped out because someone accidentally deleted the wrong account. - Automatically re-associate orphaned services with functional admin accounts? Seems good, but what if its not an apps account? What if there isn;t another obvious account to associate it with? What happens if it's not an apps account but a lone regular google account? Its a complex issue but the current hodge-podge patch-work solution of disallowing people from easily adding / deleting / editing / merging accounts, except in some cases, but not others - as well as, not being able to *ever* retrieve previously used accounts - or the bifurcation of Apps accounts and standard google accounts - is seriously not working. A huge, top-down re-factoring of all the systems is needed to fix all these issues. I hope it is in the works. Baz On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:02 AM, johnP <[email protected]> wrote: > > Don't have a solution - but had a similar experience. > > I used my appengine credentials as the admin login to a newly created > Apps account. As soon as I did this, I was unable to login to > Appengine (got an error - you will are being redirected in a way that > will never complete). So when I deleted the user from the Apps > account - I was able to re-access my Appengine account. > > I think that's the opposite of what happened to you... So I don't know > what to suggest in your case. > > johnP > > > > On Oct 19, 10:26 am, Bassil Karam <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have an Apps account in which we created the user [email protected]. > We > > then used that account to create an App Engine application. A little > while > > later, we deleted [email protected] and replaced it with a couple of > > user-sepcific administrator accounts like [email protected] and > > [email protected] (both admins). The problem is now we can't seem to > access > > our App Engine application - I am assuming because it is related to the > now > > non-existent [email protected] account. We tried to re-create > > [email protected], but Apps doesn't let you re-create recently deleted > > accounts. So as it stands, I believe my App Engine account is orphaned, > > without any possibility for access. > > > > Anyone know of a solution tot his? > > > > Thanks. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
