How To Install slapi-nis.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slapi-nis.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is slapi-nis.x86_64
This package provides two plugins for Red Hat and 389 Directory Server. The NIS Server plugin allows the directory server to act as a NIS server for clients, dynamically generating and updating NIS maps according to its configuration and the contents of the DIT, and serving the results to clients using the NIS protocol as if it were an ordinary NIS server. The Schema Compatibility plugin allows the directory server to provide an alternate view of entries stored in part of the DIT, optionally adding, dropping, or renaming attribute values, and optionally retrieving values for attributes from multiple entries in the tree.
We can use yum
to install slapi-nis.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slapi-nis.x86_64.
Install slapi-nis.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install slapi-nis.x86_64
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slapi-nis.x86_64
How To Uninstall slapi-nis.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the slapi-nis.x86_64
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove slapi-nis.x86_64
slapi-nis.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib64/dirsrv/plugins/nisserver-plugin.so
/usr/lib64/dirsrv/plugins/schemacompat-plugin.so
/usr/sbin/nisserver-plugin-defs
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/README
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/STATUS
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/betxn-notes.txt
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/format-specifiers.txt
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/ipa
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/ipa/nis-migration.txt
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/ipa/sch-ipa.txt
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/nis-configuration.txt
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/nis-getting-started.txt
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/nis-known-maps.txt
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/nis-plugin-example.ldif
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/sch-configuration.txt
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/sch-getting-started.txt
/usr/share/doc/slapi-nis-0.56.5/sch-plugin-example.ldif
/usr/share/man/man1/nisserver-plugin-defs.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slapi-nis.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.