Red Hat has removed the Network Information Service (NIS) components from RHEL 9. Can NIS netgroups still be managed by Safeguard Authentication (SAS) Services on RHEL 9? (4371496)

Red Hat has removed the Network Information Service (NIS) components from RHEL 9. Can NIS netgroups still be managed by Safeguard Authentication (SAS) Services on RHEL 9?

Red Hat has removed the Network Information Service (NIS) components from RHEL 9.


 

From redhat.com

"NIS is based on outdated design patterns and is no longer considered secure, so the following components have been removed from RHEL 9,nss_nis, yp-tools, ypbind, ypserv"
What is the support status of Network Information Service (NIS) - Red Hat Customer Portal
 

One Identity is unable to replace Red Hat's NIS components. This is an operating system decision.

Notes:
These configuration options are only valid on the following platforms: Linux, HPUX, Solaris, and AIX.
These configuration options do not require vasypd to be installed.

netgroups

In the vas.conf file (/etc/opt/quest/vas/vas.conf) set netgroup-mode NSS.

The SAS vasd daemon pulls netgroup information directly from Active Directory and can serve it to the NSS interface.

The following command will update vas.conf with the required setting.

/opt/quest/bin/vastool configure vas vasd netgroup-mode NSS  

Then run the following on Linux, HPUX, Solaris:

/opt/quest/bin/vastool configure nss

This will update /etc/nsswitch.conf so that vas4 is added to the netgroup setting. For example:
netgroup: vas4 nisplus sss

Flush netgroups

/opt/quest/bin/vastool flush ns

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