From 9bea6228d92780e508f4cc69a273653878a191b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bolkedebruin Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 22:51:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [AIRFLOW-3165] Document interpolation of '%' and warn (#4007) --- docs/security.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/security.rst b/docs/security.rst index 23f7cc030367c..9f6740d041ce0 100644 --- a/docs/security.rst +++ b/docs/security.rst @@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ backends or creating your own. Be sure to checkout :doc:`api` for securing the API. +.. note:: + + Airflow uses the config parser of Python. This config parser interpolates '%'-signs. + Make sure not to have those in your passwords if they do not make sense, otherwise + Airflow might leak these passwords on a config parser exception to a log. + Web Authentication ------------------