ypbind_selinux(8)

📦 version 2.20260929, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 ypbind_selinux — the bestie guide to SELinux policy for NIS 💖

okay so this is ypbind_selinux(8), from the ypbind Selinux Policy documentation era, and no cap it's a short one but it's important, so stay with me 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ypbind_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for NIS. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the system via flexible mandatory access control. literally the whole point of SELinux, bestie.

and here's the tea: SELinux can be setup to deny NIS from working, because NIS requires daemons to be allowed greater access to the network. it's giving strict parent energy 😭

so if your NIS is acting brand new and refusing to function, SELinux might be the reason. not a bug, it's a feature. 🙈

🎀 BOOLEANS 🎀

okay so this is the part you actually came for. you must set the allow_ypbind boolean to allow your system to work properly in a NIS environment. like, mandatory. no skipping. 👑

run this:

setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1

slay. that's the one. ✨

also, system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings — so if clicking buttons is more your main character energy than typing commands, it's right there for you 🦋

ngl, if you're in a NIS environment and stuff is mysteriously broken, vibe check allow_ypbind first. iykyk. 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>. ty bestie for your service 🫡💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page fr fr 💖 big love to <dwalsh@redhat.com>, who blessed us with this back on 17 Jan 2005 — an icon, a legend, and the moment. periodt. 🎀✨

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