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| It is important to secure the Hive metastore, so that users cannot access the names or other information |
| about databases and tables the through the Hive client or by querying the metastore database. Do this by |
| turning on Hive metastore security, using the instructions in |
| <span class="xref">the documentation for your Apache Hadoop distribution</span> for securing different Hive components: |
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| Secure the Hive Metastore. |
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| In addition, allow access to the metastore only from the HiveServer2 server, and then disable local access |
| to the HiveServer2 server. |
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