Accessing hive metastore using jdbc with kerberos keytab

Question

I am trying to connect to a hive metastore that has been configured to use Kerberos for authentication. This works for me when I am not trying to use a keytab file, i.e. whe

Answer 1

Apparently, this error was caused by using the wrong encryption type when issuing the ktutil command. Switching to the correct encryption (I won't mention which we use) solved the problem.