Connect to kerberised hive using jdbc from remote windows system

Question

I have setup a hive environment with Kerberos security enabled on a Linux server (Red Hat). And I need to connect from a remote windows machine to hive using JDBC.

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Answer 1

The key for us when we ran into the problem, was as follows:

On your server there are certain kerberos principals listed that are allowed to operate on the data.

When we tried to run a query via JDBC, we didn't do the proper kinit on the client side.

In this case the solution is obvious:

On the windows client: do a kinit with the proper account before connecting