I think they misunderstood, your talking about this https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AdminManual+Metastore+Administration. As far as I know the only authentication it supports is Kerberos.
Thanks Shawn From: Odon Copon <odonco...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 3:16 AM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Hive metastore service Hi, I don't know if I am not understanding properly the design, but, isn't there supposed to be a Hive metastore service that Hive server uses to access the metastore db? On Tue, 16 Apr 2019, 22:26 Mich Talebzadeh, <mich.talebza...@gmail.com<mailto:mich.talebza...@gmail.com>> wrote: Try this Assuming that you are talking about Hive Thrift server beeline -u jdbc:hive2://rhes75:10099/default org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver -n USERNAME -p PASSWORD -i /home/hduser/dba/bin/add_jars.hql' HTH Dr Mich Talebzadeh LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com Disclaimer: Use it at your own risk. Any and all responsibility for any loss, damage or destruction of data or any other property which may arise from relying on this email's technical content is explicitly disclaimed. The author will in no case be liable for any monetary damages arising from such loss, damage or destruction. On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 16:11, Odon Copon <odonco...@gmail.com<mailto:odonco...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, would be possible to add authentication to the Thrift Hive metastore service? like user and password? I cannot find any documentation on how to protect this endpoint. Thanks.