While running Pig scripts via Oozie, you might face SASL exception (even though Kerberos might be disabled). To resolve same, just comment out following lines in hive-site.xml then upload it to “oozie.wf.application.path”, which were – <!--property> <name>hive.metastore.kerberos.keytab.file</name> <value>/etc/security/keytabs/hive.service.keytab</value> </property> <property> <name>hive.metastore.kerberos.principal</name> <value>hive/_HOST@EXAMPLE.COM</value> </property-->