question Kerberos principal should have 3 parts in sandbox HDP 2.5 in Support Questions https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Kerberos-principal-should-have-3-parts-in-sandbox-HDP-2-5/m-p/109275#M72125 <P>I enabled kerbosr in sandbox HDP 2.5, but fails to start hive metastore.</P><P>This is the princpal setting:</P><P>hive.server2.authentication.kerberos.principal <A href="mailto:hive/_HOST@EXAMPLE.COM">hive/_HOST@EXAMPLE.COM</A></P><P>hive.metastore.kerberos.principal <A href="mailto:hive/_HOST@EXAMPLE.COM">hive/_HOST@EXAMPLE.COM</A></P><P> here's the log I see</P><PRE>2017-02-16 11:05:56,541 ERROR [main]: metastore.HiveMetaStore (HiveMetaStore.java:startMetaStore(6326)) - org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: Kerberos principal should have 3 parts: hive at org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server.createTransportFactory(HadoopThriftAuthBridge.java:351) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.startMetaStore(HiveMetaStore.java:6244) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.main(HiveMetaStore.java:6155) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:233) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:148) 2017-02-16 11:05:56,542 ERROR [main]: metastore.HiveMetaStore (HiveMetaStore.java:main(6159)) - Metastore Thrift Server threw an exception... org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: Kerberos principal should have 3 parts: hive at org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server.createTransportFactory(HadoopThriftAuthBridge.java:351) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.startMetaStore(HiveMetaStore.java:6244) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.main(HiveMetaStore.java:6155) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:233) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:148)</PRE> Thu, 16 Feb 2017 19:11:42 GMT jzhang 2017-02-16T19:11:42Z