if you try beeline -u URL_TO_CONNECT -n hive -p then it should ask you for password, if you are using hive-3.1 then possibly you need fix for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21538 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Raj K Singh
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 12:22 PM Odon Copon <odonco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm using LDAP at the moment. But, from your answer, seems that using user > and password there's no way around to try to hide the password, right? > > Thanks > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, 19:29 Will Du, <will...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You can consider use other authentication methods rather than >> username/password. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On Apr 8, 2019, at 14:04, Odon Copon <odonco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > Is there a way to make Beeline to prompt for the password? >> > I see that all the options require the password to be visibly inserted >> in plain text. The only option seems to store it in a file and the file >> path instead, but that would also require to store the password in plain >> text format. >> > Any suggestions? >> > >> > Thanks >> >
