diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 7474fb87e4b..89a297ce485 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -975,6 +975,8 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8709. globStatus changed behavior from 0.20/1.x (Jason Lowe via
     bobby)
 
+    HADOOP-8725. MR is broken when security is off (daryn via bobby)
+
 Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/UserGroupInformation.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/UserGroupInformation.java
index 967f0df89ff..0d3c4822892 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/UserGroupInformation.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/UserGroupInformation.java
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ public class UserGroupInformation {
                                           AuthenticationMethod.SIMPLE);
         loginUser = new UserGroupInformation(login.getSubject());
         String fileLocation = System.getenv(HADOOP_TOKEN_FILE_LOCATION);
-        if (fileLocation != null && isSecurityEnabled()) {
+        if (fileLocation != null) {
           // load the token storage file and put all of the tokens into the
           // user.
           Credentials cred = Credentials.readTokenStorageFile(