Overview

The Hive Snap Pack supports Apache Knox authentication to connect to the Hive service on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)'s Data Hub clusters. Using the Workload user's credentials, you can use a Generic Hive Database Account to connect to the Hive database through the Knox reverse proxy. The Cloudera Workload user credentials are used to authenticate with the Knox reverse proxy and subsequently connect to the Hive database. The Knox reverse proxy hides the complex details for managing the authentication and authorization based on the Kerberos protocol.

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