How To Install ypbind.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ypbind.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ypbind.x86_64 is The NIS daemon which binds NIS clients to an NIS domain

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ypbind.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ypbind.x86_64`

The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system that provides network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can allow users to log in on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has the NIS client programs running and the user’s password is recorded in the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). This package provides the ypbind daemon. The ypbind daemon binds NIS clients to an NIS domain. Ypbind must be running on any machines running NIS client programs. Install the ypbind package on any machines running NIS client programs (included in the yp-tools package). If you need an NIS server, you also need to install the ypserv package to a machine on your network.

We can use yum to install ypbind.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ypbind.x86_64.

Install ypbind.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 ypbind.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ypbind.x86_64

How To Uninstall ypbind.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ypbind.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ypbind.x86_64

ypbind.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/dhcp/dhclient.d/nis.sh
/etc/yp.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ypbind.service
/usr/libexec/ypbind-post-waitbind
/usr/libexec/ypbind-pre-setdomain
/usr/sbin/ypbind
/usr/share/doc/ypbind-1.37.1
/usr/share/doc/ypbind-1.37.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ypbind-1.37.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ypbind-1.37.1/README
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ypbind.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ypbind.mo
/usr/share/man/man5/yp.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ypbind.8.gz
/var/yp/binding

References

ypbind.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ypbind.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.