Authenticating to database without password prompt

[Charles Earl]

I believe that the capability to authenticate to the source database via a 
client is what is proposed in  SQOOP-795, 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-795? So that there is currently no 
way to authenticate in sqoop without a prompt on each database access. 
I assume that in practice for large numbers of transfers secure connection 
alternatives are custom engineered by users?
C