https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-enable-a-pyhive-connection-with-python-3-5-SASL-issue/m-p/208131#M170090 <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/19017/burythomas.html" nodeid="19017">@Thomas Bury</A><P>I had similar problem, I had set authentication none and had all the packages required (sasl, thrift, pyhive). I was missing a plain kerberos plugin, which was being used for authentication and had to do the following -<BR /><CODE>yum install cyrus-sasl-plain</CODE><BR />You can read more here - <A href="http://grokbase.com/t/hive/user/144tajctxv/error-in-sasl-client-start-4-sasl-4-no-mechanism-available-no-worthy-mechs-found">http://grokbase.com/t/hive/user/144tajctxv/error-in-sasl-client-start-4-sasl-4-no-mechanism-available-no-worthy-mechs-found</A></P> Sun, 25 Mar 2018 05:33:06 GMT dmehta 2018-03-25T05:33:06Z