Additional Ranger Plugin Steps for Kerberos: Hive

How to enable the Ranger Hive plugin on a Kerberos cluster.

1. Create the system (OS) user rangerhivelookup. Make sure this user is synced to Ranger Admin (under Settings>Users/Groups tab in the Ranger Admin UI).
2. Create a Kerberos principal for rangerhivelookup: kadmin.local -q 'addprinc -pw rangerhivelookup rangerhivelookup@example.com.
3. Navigate to the Hive service.
4. Click the Config tab and navigate to advanced ranger-hive-plugin-properties.
5. Update the following properties with the values listed in the table below.

   Table 1. Hive Plugin Properties

   Configuration Property Name	Value
   Ranger service config user	rangerhivelookup@example.com
   Ranger service config password	rangerhivelookup
   common.name.for.certificate	blank

6. After updating these properties, click Save and then restart the Hive service.