You must perform the recommended steps if you use Kerberos; otherwise, you can skip
these steps.
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Become the Hive service user.
For example, on Linux:
$ kinit -kt /etc/security/keytabs/hive.service.keytab hive/`hostname -f`
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Set
-Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false in a Kerberized
environment if, after running kinit, you see the following error:
org.ietf.jgss.GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level:
Failed to find any Kerberos tgt
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Perform the procedure for compacting Hive tables that follows.
