[SPARK-23639] SparkSQL CLI fails talk to Kerberized metastore when use proxy user

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.1, 2.4.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Kent Yao 2
• Reporter: Kent Yao 2
• Created: 09/Mar/18 10:23
• Updated: 20/Sep/18 17:39
• Resolved: 29/Mar/18 17:47

Description

In SparkSQLCLI, SessionState generates before SparkContext instantiating. When we use --proxy-user to impersonate, it's unable to initializing a metastore client to talk to the secured metastore for no kerberos ticket.

Issue Links

• causes: SPARK-24349 obtainDelegationTokens() exits JVM if Driver use JDBC instead of using metastore
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #20784 (yaooqinn)