https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Getting-error-while-opening-hive-shell/m-p/107941#M70796 <P>Yes user name and passwords are there at &lt;value&gt; tag of : &lt;name&gt;javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName&lt;/name&gt; , &lt;name&gt;javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword&lt;/name&gt; . Can you please elloborate the steps to check whether mysql is working or not . </P> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:27:33 GMT amit_dass 2016-04-20T16:27:33Z