How To Install ypbind on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ypbind on CentOS 8.
What is ypbind
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 or dnf to install ypbind on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ypbind.
Install ypbind on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ypbind using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ypbind
Install ypbind on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ypbind using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ypbind
How To Uninstall ypbind on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ypbind package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ypbind
ypbind Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/dhcp/dhclient.d/nis.sh
/etc/yp.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/b4a892ace4b9431f355863c2468fd518652fa6
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ypbind.service
/usr/libexec/ypbind-post-waitbind
/usr/libexec/ypbind-pre-setdomain
/usr/sbin/ypbind
/usr/share/doc/ypbind
/usr/share/doc/ypbind/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ypbind/README
/usr/share/licenses/ypbind
/usr/share/licenses/ypbind/COPYING
/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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ypbind on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.