There might be the possible below cause.   1. If the script is running fine manually from your user, then maybe a problem with the binary path.  Export the kinit binary path in the script.   export PATH="/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/java/latest/bin:/usr/java/latest/jre/bin:/root/bin:/bin"   2. check the permission for the key tab file and the RWX permission for the user 3. If the above solution not works try to add the ticket generation command separately in corn  for every 10 min and test the script. */10 * * * * kinit -kt /root/user.keytab user@PROD.EDH     ... View more

I think this file is generated by ambari. Probably that is why the owner is root. ... View more

you can change default behave by "set hive.default.fileformat=TextFile" ... View more

So, if my target is to "set LDAP connection to allow users to use their LDAP credentials to login to Ranger UI": If I used the link that you provided (http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.3.4/bk_Ranger_Install_Guide/content/configure_ranger_authentication.html#configuring_ranger_ldap_authentication). The users will still not be allowed to access the Ranger portal and there will still be an extra step to give them enough privileges to do that (i.e. add them to a group or something?) And if both internal and external users can eventually have privileges to login to the portal, why would I use one link instead of the other? Sorry, I am a newbie and trying to understand all this 😞 ... View more