June 2018
Beginner to intermediate
210 pages
5h 12m
English
Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a user by obtaining the user's credentials. Hive has offered authentication since hiveserver2. In the old version of Hive, hiveserver1 does not support Kerberos authentication for thrift clients. As result, if we could access the host/port over the network, we could access the server. Instead, we can leverage the metastore server, which supports Kerberos, for authentication. In this section, we will briefly talk about authentication configurations in both the metastore server and hiveserver2.
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