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In the Thrift1 demo client we have this code:
transport = new TSaslClientTransport("GSSAPI", null, "hbase", // Thrift server user name, should be an authorized proxy user. host, // Thrift server domain saslProperties, null, transport);
This will only work when the Thrift server is started with the hbase principal. Often this may deviate, for example I am using hbase-thrift to separate the names from those of backend servers.
What we need is either an additional command line option to specify the name, or a property that can be set with -D and can be passed at runtime. I prefer the former, as the latter is making this a little convoluted.