RHive kerberos issue on CDH

I am using the following version of Hive 1.1.0-cdh5.4.3 with R 3.2.2. My typical jdbc string would look something like below if I were connecting via SQL Squirrel for instance:

jdbc:hive2://hive.server.com:10000/default;AuthMech=1;principal=hive/_HOST@SOME.DOMAIN.COM

See the following error after the connect, note I have a valid credential prior to invoking R repl:

rhive.connect(host = "hive.server.com", port = "10001", db = "default", user = "bayroot", password = "XXXXX", defaultFS="hdfs://nameservice1/rhive", properties="hive.principal=hive/_HOST@SOME.DOMAIN.COM")
Warning:
+----------------------------------------------------------+
+ / hiveServer2 argument has not been provided correctly. +
+ / RHive will use a default value: hiveServer2=TRUE. +
+----------------------------------------------------------+
15/10/21 11:17:03 INFO jdbc.Utils: Supplied authorities: hive.server.com:10001
15/10/21 11:17:03 INFO jdbc.Utils: Resolved authority: hive.server.com:10001
15/10/21 11:17:03 INFO jdbc.HiveConnection: Will try to open client transport with JDBC Uri: jdbc:hive2://hive.server.com:10001/default;principal=hive/_HOST@SOME.DOMAIN.COM
15/10/21 11:20:05 ERROR transport.TSaslTransport: SASL negotiation failure
javax.security.sasl.SaslException: GSS initiate failed [Caused by GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Fail to create credential. (63) - No service creds)]

Please note this code was working fine in CDH 5.3.2 which was hive .13 I believe:

Package: RHive
Type: Package
Title: R and Hive
Version: 2.0-1.0

[Worvast]

Hi @bayroot22, i think in two options:

1.- See if you has a Kerberos ticket created with 'klist' (In Shell, not in R), if not, create one with 'kinit' command.

2.- See if HiveServer2 has the correct configuration with the RHive UDF File included, i only has this info for do that:

In hive-site.xml add this property and restart HiveServer2:

<property>
    <name>hive.aux.jars.path</name>
    <value> ----/path/to/rhive_udf.jar----, ----/other/aux/jars.jar----  </value>
</property>

If you use Cloudera CDH they has one tutorial for include UDF files to be use by HiveServer

http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/cm_mc_hive_udf.html

Good luck

thanks for the response...

1. yes a ticket was created
2. I added the rhive_udf.jar to my aux path and restarted hive but same issue

I added the following property hive.keytab=/home/bayroot/hive.keytab to the connection string now I get the following:

Exception in thread "Thread-6" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.sql.SQLException: Could not open client transport with JDBC Uri: jdbc:hive2://hive.server.com:10001/default: Peer indicated failure: Unsupported mechanism type PLAIN

A couple thoughts/questions?

1 - I manage a multi-tenant environment so exposing the hive keytab is a serious security concern so even if this worked it wouldn't be a solution I could implement...
2 - In the loginUserFromKeytab method how does the authentication type get set? I don't see the setAuthenticationMethod method, possibly it gets set in loginUserFromKeytab? As indicated in the above message it looks like RHive is sending auth type of PLAIN and not KERBEROS.

[Worvast]

As I have understood if you created the ticket in R you not should put the flags username and password, there may come the message of 'plaintext password' when trying to use these parameters to log, If you have a Kerberos ticket created in the R environment R is responsible for trying to use it automatically, creating the connection / set necessary, soo should use only:

rhive.connect(host = "hive.server.com", port = "10001", db = "default",
defaultFS="hdfs://nameservice1/rhive", 
properties="hive.principal=hive/_HOST@SOME.DOMAIN.COM")

It is also true that with this format i can't connect, I used the following format for the connection (Example):

rhive.connect(host="hive.server.com:10000/DEFAULTDB;principal=hive/KERBEROSPRINCIPAL;AuthMech=1;KrbHostFQDN=KERBEROSHOSTURL;KrbServiceName=hive;KrbRealm=KERBEROSREALM",
defaultFS="hdfs://nameservice1/rhive", 
hiveServer2=TRUE,
updateJar=FALSE)

[arundoss]

Hi Team,

could you please confirm Rhive supports kerberos or not.,if its support pls tell the me the correct format for rhive.connect.

[Prussia]

any ideas?