Flask-AppBuilder supports many authentication protocols. The default database authentication protocol allows the creation of new users by the admin. When creating the user, the admin sets a default password and shares it with the users along with their username. However, this is quite a cumbersome way to onboard new collaborators to your Superset web app.
The OAuth protocol allows the use of external authorization services such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Once any of these OAuth services are put in place, users can register and sign in themselves, without requiring any action by the admin. We will change the default database-based authentication to Google OAuth.
In the superset_config.py file, we can ...
