https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Beeline-u-quot-JDBC-hive2-url-quot-n-username-gives-error/m-p/176875#M139125 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/11386/gauravmallik12.html" nodeid="11386">@Gaurav Mallikarjuna</A></P><P>I believe the issue could be with the permissions on the '/user/hive/' directory in hdfs. So the user you are passing in your beeline command line should have the proper access to this directory as well. In my case, the '/user/hive/' was owned by 'hive' user and 'hadoop' group. Also the folder has '755' permissions in my case.</P><P>I tried below query and it worked for me:</P><P># beeline -u "jdbc:hive2://&lt;my zookeeper fqdn&gt;:2181,&lt;my zookeeper fqdn&gt;:2181,&lt;my zookeeper fqdn&gt;:2181/;serviceDiscoveryMode=zooKeeper;zooKeeperNamespace=hiveserver2" -u hrt_qa</P><P>Connecting to jdbc:hive2://&lt;my zookeeper fqdn&gt;:2181,&lt;my zookeeper fqdn&gt;:2181,&lt;my zookeeper fqdn&gt;:2181/;serviceDiscoveryMode=zooKeeper;zooKeeperNamespace=hiveserver2</P><P>Connected to: Apache Hive (version 1.2.1000.2.5.0.0-1245)</P><P>Driver: Hive JDBC (version 1.2.1000.2.5.0.0-1245)</P><P>Transaction isolation: TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ</P><P>Beeline version 1.2.1000.2.5.0.0-1245 by Apache Hive</P><P>0: jdbc:hive2://&lt;my zookeeper hostname&gt;.o&gt;</P><P>So, I think it has nothing to with quotes.</P> Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:33:20 GMT narendrakumar 2017-07-11T07:33:20Z