How to add admin user in airflow?

Question

How to add admin user in airflow ?

I want to use simple Web Authentication. If I add user as described in documentation airflow.apache.ort/security then user is not an admin.

code from docs:

import airflow
from airflow import models, settings
from airflow.contrib.auth.backends.password_auth import PasswordUser
user = PasswordUser(models.User())
user.username = 'new_user_name'
user.email = '[email protected]'
user.password = 'set_the_password'
session = settings.Session()
session.add(user)
session.commit()
session.close()
exit()

Answer 1

If you are using the rbac UI, the easiest option is to run the following command for Airflow <2 :

airflow create_user \
    --email EMAIL --firstname firstname \
    --lastname lastname --password password \
    --role Admin --username username

For Airflow > 2:

airflow users create \
    --email EMAIL --firstname firstname \
    --lastname lastname --password password \
    --role Admin --username username