Hive is poor on user authentication and authorization. But all map reduce jobs launched by Hive follow the Hadoop file permissions while reading and writing data. So best way to enforce security using Hive is to secure your data in HDFS using appropriate permissions.
Thanks, Vinod http://blog.vinodsingh.com/ On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Chalcy Raja <[email protected]>wrote: > Using hive server with Tableau now and realize that the user comes in as > “hive” user. Also after reading more in the emails and elsewhere and found > that hive server is not thread safe and does not have way to set up > authentication.**** > > How is the connection to hive handled in Tableau, Microstrategy or > Pentaho? **** > > Any information is appreciated.**** > > Thanks,**** > > Chalcy**** >
