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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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Disable ypserv Service
Disable ypserv Service
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Disable ypserv Service
Medium Severity
The
ypserv
service, which allows the system to act as a client in a NIS or NIS+ domain, should be disabled. The
ypserv
service can be disabled with the following command:
$ sudo systemctl mask --now ypserv.service