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16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions providers/google/docs/api-auth-backend/google-openid.rst
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[api]
google_oauth2_audience = project-id-random-value.apps.googleusercontent.com
.. warning:: User identity is matched by email address

This backend authenticates a request by matching the **verified** ``email``
claim of the Google ID token against an existing Airflow user's email. Email
addresses are mutable and can be reassigned between Google identities (for
example when an employee leaves and the address is recycled to a new hire, or
via domain recycling). The immutable ``sub`` (subject) claim is not consulted,
so a Google identity that comes to hold a previously-used address could
authenticate as the Airflow user still mapped to it.

Treat the email-to-user mapping as part of your identity lifecycle:
**deprovision (or re-map) the Airflow user whenever its email is reassigned**,
and do not recycle an address to a different identity while an Airflow account
is still mapped to it. Restricting ``google_oauth2_audience`` to your own
deployment (above) keeps tokens minted for unrelated audiences out of scope.

You can also configure the CLI to send request to a remote API instead of making a query to a local database.

.. code-block:: ini
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