Delete/Trash files when authenticating with a Service Account

[lpares12]

Hi!

So I need to use service account authentication since I'm in a headless setup with no GUI access in the machine. So I have created a service account, shared the drive folder with that account and given it Editor permissions.

The problem is that I can't seem to remove files like this. I googled a bit and turns out Editors can't remove files from Drive. So I'm wondering if there's any approach with PyDrive2 to have a headless setup and to be able to remove files.

Any alternatives will be appreciated!

Also trashing the files would be okay, but can't do that either.

[shcheklein]

I think yes, you should be able to list files and delete them with the api. Have you tried it? In a similar way to the regular drive.

[lpares12]

Service accounts don't seem to have permissions for deleting or trash/untrash. I was wondering if there's any other way I can headlessly authenticate with PyDrive2. But that would force me to log in with the admin account anyways, which is not ideal. Seems like a Drive limitation.