Hi .   any solution you found for  same .   i having the same issue the  accessing the hive through python.     Thanks  HadoopHelp ... View more

@Thomas Bury I had similar problem, I had set authentication none and had all the packages required (sasl, thrift, pyhive). I was missing a plain kerberos plugin, which was being used for authentication and had to do the following - yum install cyrus-sasl-plain You can read more here - http://grokbase.com/t/hive/user/144tajctxv/error-in-sasl-client-start-4-sasl-4-no-mechanism-available-no-worthy-mechs-found ... View more