Hi Raj, That doesn't work for me. It doesn't ask for the password, it fails directly without prompting.
Thanks On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, 21:05 Raj K Singh, <rajkrrsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > if you try beeline -u URL_TO_CONNECT -n hive -p then it should ask you > for password, if you are using hive-3.1 then possibly you need fix for > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21538 > :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > Raj K Singh > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 12:22 PM Odon Copon <odonco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'm using LDAP at the moment. But, from your answer, seems that using >> user and password there's no way around to try to hide the password, right? >> >> Thanks >> >> On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, 19:29 Will Du, <will...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> You can consider use other authentication methods rather than >>> username/password. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> > On Apr 8, 2019, at 14:04, Odon Copon <odonco...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi, >>> > Is there a way to make Beeline to prompt for the password? >>> > I see that all the options require the password to be visibly inserted >>> in plain text. The only option seems to store it in a file and the file >>> path instead, but that would also require to store the password in plain >>> text format. >>> > Any suggestions? >>> > >>> > Thanks >>> >>