https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/HBase-Insufficient-Permissions-with-Kerberos/m-p/88046#M55211 Yes, the klist output matches the added username, and everything is in the same realm.<BR /><BR />I'm trying to just create a table with the HBase shell:<BR /><BR />hbase(main):002.0&gt;create 'testtable', 'colfam1'<BR /><BR />This results in the error from my first post:<BR /><BR />ERROR: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.security.AccessDeniedException: Insufficient permissions (user=&lt;username&gt;@&lt;realm&gt;, scope=default, params=[namespace=default, table=default:testtable,family=colfam1],action=CREATE) Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:38:08 GMT David_Schwab 2019-03-20T14:38:08Z