Enabling JWT Authentication for impala-shell

To connect to Impala using JWT authentication, you specify the following command-line options to the impala-shell command interpreter and enter the password when prompted.

-j, --jwt

indicates that JWT authentication will be used

--jwt_cmd

shell command to run to retrieve the JWT to be used for authentication

Examples

Reading the JWT from a file named my_jwt.txt.

impala-shell -i impala_hostname:port -j --ssl --jwt_cmd "cat my_jwt.txt"

impala-shell --ssl -i impala_hostname:port -j --jwt_cmd "echo ${MY_JWT_ENV_VAR}"

impala-shell --ssl -i impala_hostname:port -j --jwt_cmd "pbpaste"