@jzhang I was facing similar problem. I added the following to core-site.xml and problem was resolved. Property to watch out for is "hadoop.security.auth_to_local" <property>
<name>hadoop.security.authentication</name>
<value>kerberos</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hadoop.security.authorization</name>
<value>true</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hadoop.security.auth_to_local</name>
<value>
RULE:[2:$1@$0](hive/.*@.*EXAMPLE.COM)s/.*/hive/
DEFAULT
</value>
</property>
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