Ypbind and NIS client on AlmaLinux release 9.2 (Turquoise Kodkod)

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Hi team,
How are you?
Can you please help me these questions:

  1. I cannot find out ypbind packet in the repo. Do I have to install as an rpm from outer source?
  2. Can you pleas let me know how to set up nis client?
    Thank you
    [root@m2-dl360g9-105 ~]# yum repolist
    repo id repo name
    appstream AlmaLinux 9 - AppStream
    baseos AlmaLinux 9 - BaseOS
    extras AlmaLinux 9 - Extras
    [root@m2-dl360g9-105 ~]# yum search ypbind
    Last metadata expiration check: 16:19:22 ago on Thu 07 Sep 2023 04:50:36 PM PDT.
    No matches found.
    [root@m2-dl360g9-105 ~]# yum list installed | grep rpcbind
    rpcbind.x86_64 1.2.6-5.el9 @baseos
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Does it have to be NIS?

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nis+ was removed from EL8.3 and was never part of 9.x because its not 1987 anymore

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Thank you. Yes, my company is using NIS.

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Unfortunate. The appropriate thing would switch the company to something that has support.

One approach (when there are no build for Alma) is to check whether some relatively similar RPM-based distro (like Fedora) still has those desired packages, get their src.rpm, and rebuild the binary packages (preferably with mock) for Alma. Although, that can fail.

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amazingly they’re still being built for fedora 39:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2258703
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2258716
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2258705

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As jlehtone suggested I downloaded source rpms for fc39, recompiled with mock under alma 9.3, installed rpms and modified /etc/pam.d in according with what was in there for ALMA 8 - and it works. I didn’t test ypserv yet, but client works. You can find rpms for EL9 in Index of /~sysadmin .