[IMPALA-559] Impala shell can prompt user to kinit if -k is specified

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 1.1
• Fix Version/s: Impala 1.2
• Component/s: Clients
• Labels: shell
• Assignee: Ishaan Joshi
• Reporter: Alan Choi
• Created: 24/Aug/13 00:48
• Updated: 28/Dec/15 17:43
• Resolved: 27/Sep/13 22:43

Description

When the kerberos option (-k) is specified and the user has not run kinit, the error is very hard to understand. Impala-shell can check by running klist and return an proper error to the user.