https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/HDFS-is-not-accessible-from-an-user-after-kerberos/m-p/317578#M227240 <P><a href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/86203">@dmharshit</a>&nbsp;</P><P>Please have a look at my other posting on keytabs</P><P><A href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Headless-Keytab-Vs-User-Keytab-Vs-Service-Keytab/m-p/175277/highlight/true#M137536" target="_self">https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Headless-Keytab-Vs-User-Keytab-Vs-Service-Keytab/m-p/175277/highlight/true#M137536</A><BR /><BR /></P><P>Having said that you are switched to the hive user and attempting to use hdfs-headless-keytab. That's not possible.</P><P>As the root user run the following steps</P><LI-CODE lang="markup"># su - hdfs [hdfs@server-hdp ~]$ kinit -kt /etc/security/keytabs/hdfs.headless.keytab</LI-CODE><P><BR />Now you should have a valid ticket</P><LI-CODE lang="markup">[hdfs@server-hdp ~]$ klist</LI-CODE><P>Happy hadooping !!!</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:50:37 GMT Shelton 2021-06-02T20:50:37Z