You need to create user directories on HDFS for each user. $ su - hdfs Because your cluster is kerberized you need to get a token for the hdfs user. Something like this $ kinit -k -t /etc/security/keytabs/hdfs.service.keytab hdfs/node1.hadoop.com@HADOOP.COM Now you can create an HDFS directory for your user. $ hadoop fs -mkdir /user/berlin $ hadoop fs -chown berlin /user/berlin If you're querying Hive, you could use a desktop tool like Aginity Workbench, which supports Kerberos connections. ... View more

Just to be clear, the 1.3 release breaks a feature but there is no documentation of that in the release notes? Great. When you run an update from the command line it upgrades Cloudbreak to 1.4.... ... View more