https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-q-a/hdbcli-seems-to-have-a-syntax-error-during-connection/qaa-p/13853270#M4881751 <P>Kerberos is used when only the username is specified:</P><P><A href="https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_HANA_CLIENT/f1b440ded6144a54ada97ff95dac7adf/b250e7fef8614ea0a0973d58eb73bda8.html#user-ids-and-passwords" target="_blank">https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_HANA_CLIENT/f1b440ded6144a54ada97ff95dac7adf/b250e7fef8614ea0a0973d58eb73bda8.html#user-ids-and-passwords</A>&nbsp;</P><P>Is that what does not work for you?&nbsp;</P> Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:55:56 GMT Vitaliy-R 2024-09-03T15:55:56Z https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-q-a/hdbcli-seems-to-have-a-syntax-error-during-connection/qaq-p/13850737 <P>When trying to connect to HANA DB instance by using python lib 'hdbcli', there seems an mistake within the lib:</P><P>When passing parameter 'username' which is also provided explictly in the method 'connect(...)':</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="dougliu_2-1725251021642.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.sap.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/160522iC129FFA142DB06BA/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="dougliu_2-1725251021642.png" alt="dougliu_2-1725251021642.png" /></span></P><P>I find the solutions here:&nbsp;<A href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/77315479/17094981" target="_blank">https://stackoverflow.com/q/77315479/17094981</A>&nbsp;</P><P>then there will be an error raised:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="dougliu_1-1725250979189.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.sap.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/160521iE5AA9EA28445D23F/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="dougliu_1-1725250979189.png" alt="dougliu_1-1725250979189.png" /></span></P><P>However if I use 'user' there, everything goes well:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="dougliu_0-1725250833414.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.sap.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/160519i1C2B12BB86E93CBD/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="dougliu_0-1725250833414.png" alt="dougliu_0-1725250833414.png" /></span></P><P><LI-PRODUCT title="SAP HANA Cloud" id="73554900100800002881"></LI-PRODUCT>&nbsp;<LI-PRODUCT title="Python" id="f220d74d-56e2-487e-8e6c-a8cb3def2378"></LI-PRODUCT>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 02 Sep 2024 04:29:40 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-q-a/hdbcli-seems-to-have-a-syntax-error-during-connection/qaq-p/13850737 dougliu 2024-09-02T04:29:40Z https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-q-a/hdbcli-seems-to-have-a-syntax-error-during-connection/qaa-p/13853270#M4881751 <P>Kerberos is used when only the username is specified:</P><P><A href="https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_HANA_CLIENT/f1b440ded6144a54ada97ff95dac7adf/b250e7fef8614ea0a0973d58eb73bda8.html#user-ids-and-passwords" target="_blank">https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_HANA_CLIENT/f1b440ded6144a54ada97ff95dac7adf/b250e7fef8614ea0a0973d58eb73bda8.html#user-ids-and-passwords</A>&nbsp;</P><P>Is that what does not work for you?&nbsp;</P> Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:55:56 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-q-a/hdbcli-seems-to-have-a-syntax-error-during-connection/qaa-p/13853270#M4881751 Vitaliy-R 2024-09-03T15:55:56Z