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The Hive Snap Pack supports Cloudera Data Platform authentication. You can use the Generic Hive Database Account to connect to the Hive database through the knox reverse proxy by using the Workload user's credentials. The Knox reverse proxy hides the complex details for managing kerberos based authentication and authorization from the client. The Cloudera Workload user credentials are used to authenticate against Knox reverse proxy and subsequently connect to the Hive database. The Knox reverse proxy hides the complex details for managing kerberos based authentication and authorization from the client.
Prerequisites
Valid Cloudera Workload user user’s credentials.
Clouder instance.
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