The driver supports the following authentication methods:
  • User ID/password Authentication authenticates using SCRAM-SHA-1 for specified user ID and passwords.
  • Keberos Authentication authenticates by using Kerberos authentication protocol..
  • Hadoop Delegation Token Authentication uses Kerberos authentication protocol to authenticate delegation tokens retrieved from the KDC.
  • No authentication is used for servers that are not configured to authenticate user logon information.. the driver does not attempt to verify the user ID and password. When a packet is passed to the server, a value of Anonymous is specified for the user ID and password. You can configure no authentication by setting AuthenticationMethod=none.

By default, the driver is configured to use user ID/password authentication (AuthenticationMethod=userIDPassword).