ENV:-

• SDC is integrated with CDH/CDP.
• Kerberos is enabled.
• start event script/end event scripts are being used to get the kerberos credentials.

ISSUE:-

• start event script/end event scripts try to kinit and end up with following error message:-

ERROR stderr: kinit: Pre-authentication failed: Permission denied while getting initial credentials

Resolution:-

• By default CDH/CDP enabled clusters has set environment variable KRB5CCNAME 
• add following line to at the beginning of the script to unset the variable temporarily

unset KRB5CCNAME