The issue with beeline access to hive when using Kerberos, is that we need to use the "right principal" in the connection string - and it MUST be hive's principal. 1. So you must explicitly do a kinit and grab a valid ticket from Kerberos. 2. After you have a valid ticket - you can use the following URL to connect using beeline: beeline -u "jdbc:hive2://<hive_server_name>:10000/<db_name>;principal=hive/<hostname>@<realm_name> This will do the trick. ... View more