Comment by pkaeding

4 months ago

You can also create a non-email Google account as Bob+external@example.com, as long as you can get email sent to bob@example.com (ie, while you are employed by Example, Inc). Then, you leave your job, but still have a google account associated with an example.com email. Depending on how the app checks the login response, they might mistakenly assume you are part of the example.com org.

I'm pretty sure you cannot create a personal account for "bob+external@example.com", as Google both knows about plus-suffixes (didn't they create them?) and any domains already managed under Workspaces. They also, in my experience, seem to have some understanding of domains managed by Microsoft's cloud and perhaps other competitors as well.

But even so, there's another mechanism, which is that when you create an OAuth2-enabled project in Google's console, you can specify that only known users in your domain are allowed to authenticate through it. This would lock out any personal account anyway.