Thanks Neeraj! I also set up LDAP through freeIPA service and configured LDAP in Hive in Ambari. Below links helped me a lot to do the setup. https://github.com/hortonworks-gallery/ambari-freeipa-service https://github.com/abajwa-hw/security-workshops/blob/master/Setup-Ambari.md#authentication-via-ldap ** If you installed LDAP through freeIPA link given above, you have to set baseDN as “cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=hortonworks,dc=com” in Ambari Properties. One can try ldap search command "ldapsearch -h localhost:389 -w hortonworks -x -b 'dc=hortonworks,dc=com' uid=ali" after successful LDAP configuration. ... View more