How To Install ypbind on Fedora 34

ypbind is The NIS daemon which binds NIS clients to an NIS domain

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ypbind on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ypbind.

Install ypbind on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ypbind

ypbind Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/dhcp/dhclient.d/nis.sh
/etc/yp.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/db6517dffcf93954a1b6137a33a4b86b0bc362
/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

ypbind website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ypbind on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.