How to disable kerberos for HiveServer2

[#1]

Hello everyone,

We would like to try disabling Hive Kerberos on CDP 7.1.7.

Here are the parameters we tried disabling:

Hive Service Advanced Configuration Snippet (Safety Valve) for hive-site.xml

hive.server2.authentication.kerberos.principal 

hive.server2.authentication.kerberos.keytab

hive.server2.authentication NONE

hive.security.authorization.enabled false

hive.server2.enable.impersonation false

hive.metastore.sasl.enabled false

Hive Service Advanced Configuration Snippet (Safety Valve) for core-site.xml

hadoop.security.authentication simple

hadoop.security.authorization false

After turning off the following parameters and restarting HiveServer2, we noticed that HiveServer2 still seems to fail due to Kerberos authentication.

Could you please advise on how to completely disable Kerberos for HiveServer2? Thank you.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@steinsgate 

Its definitely not recommended to disable Kerberos for Hive. However if you still want to disable Kerberos please do it at a cluster level and not at Hive level. This is not a supported / certified combination. Thats to have your cluster kerberos but Hive not kerberized. Its either you cluster is Kerberos enabled or not.