Github user weand commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/2925 so running via cron will use the last user that executed a paragraph. that does not fit exactly to the docu change from original PR: > Cron executing user (It is removed from 0.8 where it **enforces the cron execution user to be the note owner** for security purpose) [https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/2914/files#diff-bed1be4fb1f7f6c8e3bd6db18d72dc44](https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/2914/files#diff-bed1be4fb1f7f6c8e3bd6db18d72dc44)
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