Sebastian Radloff created AIRFLOW-2162:
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Summary: Run DAG as user other than airflow does NOT have access
to AIRFLOW_ environment variables
Key: AIRFLOW-2162
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-2162
Project: Apache Airflow
Issue Type: Bug
Components: configuration
Reporter: Sebastian Radloff
When running airflow with LocalExecutor, I inject airflow environment variables
that are supposed to override what is in the airflow.cfg, according to the
documentation [https://airflow.apache.org/configuration.html.
I|https://airflow.apache.org/configuration.html.]f you specify to run your DAGs
as another linux user, root for example, this is what airflow executes under
the hood:
{code:java}
['bash', '-c', u'sudo -H -u root airflow run docker_sample docker_op_tester
2018-03-01T15:14:55.699668 --job_id 2 --raw -sd DAGS_FOLDER/docker-operator.py
--cfg_path /tmp/tmpignV9B']
{code}
It uses sudo and switches to the root linux user, unfortunately, it won't have
access to the environment variables injected to override the config. This is
important for people who are trying to inject variables into a docker container
at run time while wishing to maintain a level of security around database
credentials.
I think a decent proposal made by [~ashb] in gitter, would be to automatically
pass all environment variables starting with *AIRFLOW__* to any user. Please
lmk if y'all want any help on the documentation or point me in the right
direction and I could create a PR.
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