you probably figured this out, but your step to start beeline should use cloudera as the username. The tutorial has a typographic error:   this [cloudera@quickstart ~]$ beeline -u jdbc:hive2://quickstart:10000/default -n admin -d org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver should be [cloudera@quickstart ~]$ beeline -u jdbc:hive2://quickstart:10000/default -n cloudera -d org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver     Delete the two log tables you created and then start this section again using the -n cloudera. ... View more