How to activate authentication in Apache Airflow

Question

Airflow version- 1.9.0

I have installed apache airflow and post configuration i am able to run sample DAG\'s with sequential executor.

Also, created new sample u

Answer 1

1. edit airflow.cfg
   inside [webserver] section

   • change authenticate = True. by default it is set to False.
   • add auth_backend = airflow.contrib.auth.backends.password_auth.
   • change rbac = True for Role-based-access-control – RBAC.

2. airflow initdb

3. restart airflow webserver