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Workload
========

This topic describes how to configure Airflow to secure your workload.

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Impersonation
-------------

Airflow has the ability to impersonate a unix user while running task
instances based on the task's ``run_as_user`` parameter, which takes a user's name.

**NOTE:** For impersonations to work, Airflow must be run with ``sudo`` as subtasks are run
with ``sudo -u`` and permissions of files are changed. Furthermore, the unix user needs to
exist on the worker. Here is what a simple sudoers file entry could look like to achieve
this, assuming as airflow is running as the ``airflow`` user. Note that this means that
the airflow user must be trusted and treated the same way as the root user.

.. code-block:: none

    airflow ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL


Subtasks with impersonation will still log to the same folder, except that the files they
log to will have permissions changed such that only the unix user can write to it.

Default Impersonation
'''''''''''''''''''''
To prevent tasks that don't use impersonation to be run with ``sudo`` privileges, you can set the
``core:default_impersonation`` config which sets a default user impersonate if ``run_as_user`` is
not set.

.. code-block:: ini

    [core]
    default_impersonation = airflow