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The public and viewer roles

The public and viewer roles - Apache Airflow Tutorial

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The public and viewer roles

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- [Instructor] Here I am in the AirFlow login page. I've logged out as the admin user, and I'm going to log in as the user with the least privileges. That is the user with the public role. The public role has no permissions, and you can do nothing in the AirFlow UI if you're assigned this role. That is by default, this is the message that you'll see when you log in using the public role. There's nothing that we can do here. All we can do is log out and log in as a different role and hope for the best. Well, the public role was kind of disappointing. Let's log in as a viewer user. Remember, this is the user that has been assigned the viewer role. You can of course read up about each of these roles in detail, but in short a viewer has only read only access to the AirFlow web UI and can see the status of the different DAGs that have been executed but cannot launch or modify these DAGs. As you click around, you'll see many…

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