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 # Airflow
  Airflow Course
 
+## Setting the right Airflow user
+As outlined in the [Apache Airflow Documentation](URL "https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/howto/docker-compose/index.html#initializing-environment"), to prevent 
+permission-related problems **when executing on a Linux distribution**
+execute the following command prior to using docker compose: 
+
+echo -e "AIRFLOW_UID"=$(id -u) > .env
+
 ## Python packages in WSL
 pip install apache-airflow