Hive - Authentication

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What is Authentication, known also as Access control, Identification, or AuthN?

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Type

hive.server2.authentication - property

• NONE: no authentication check – plain SASL transport
• LDAP: LDAP/AD based authentication
• KERBEROS: Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication
• CUSTOM: Custom authentication provider (use with property hive.server2.custom.authentication.class)
• PAM: Pluggable authentication module (added in Hive 0.13.0 with HIVE-6466)
• NOSASL: Raw transport (added in Hive 0.13.0)

NONE

URI Connection example:

beeline> !connect jdbc:hive2://10.10.6.29:10001/default;transportMode=http user ""

where:

• user can be anything
• “” is the password and can be anything

Management

Conf

See conf properties, beginning with hive.server2.authentication

• ConfigurationProperties-AuthenticationandAuthorization - Reference

Documentation / Reference

• https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AuthDev