I was trying to use spark.authenticate and it isn't being turned on.

This setting though I don't think will be able to be propagated since when the executor starts it uses akka to talk back to the driver in order to get those settings.  It has to know ahead of time to use the secret.  So perhaps there are a few that need to be handled specially. 

Looking at some other settings they are getting propagated properly.

I don't know if this is related to this jira but I'm also seeing weird behavior when an application fails. The AM seems to be staying around even though it finished with RM with failed.  I'll try to look into this some more.