https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/kerberos-livy-quot-requirement-failed-Kerberos-requires-livy/m-p/179835#M142081 <P>Hello <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/322/rlevas.html" nodeid="322">@Robert Levas</A> thank you for your reply.</P><P>I am pretty sure the conf file is being picked up. If I comment out this line:</P><PRE>livy.server.auth.type = kerberos </PRE><P>Then the server can start up fine, and requests are served fine, just that without authentication.</P><P>Adding or removing the following has no effect:</P><PRE>livy.server.kerberos.keytab = /etc/security/keytabs/livy.headless.keytab </PRE><P>even though the log kind of suggest it is looking for it, if kerberos is switched on.</P> Tue, 23 May 2017 15:20:13 GMT David_Tam 2017-05-23T15:20:13Z