diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure-datalake/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/adl/AdlFileSystem.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure-datalake/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/adl/AdlFileSystem.java
index e63f115256..0de538e4de 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure-datalake/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/adl/AdlFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure-datalake/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/adl/AdlFileSystem.java
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ public void initialize(URI storeUri, Configuration conf) throws IOException {
       userName = UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser().getShortUserName();
     } catch (IOException e) {
       userName = "hadoop";
+      LOG.warn("Got exception when getting Hadoop user name."
+          + " Set the user name to '" + userName + "'.", e);
     }
 
     this.setWorkingDirectory(getHomeDirectory());