This guide demonstrates how to build and install a complete NIS (Network Information Service) server on Rocky Linux 9, where the official repositories no longer provide ypserv
packages. We build ypserv 4.2 from source code.
- Problem: Rocky 9 (RHEL 9 derivatives) removed NIS server packages from official repos
- Available: Only
ypbind-mt
(NIS client) is available in EPEL9