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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Services
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NIS
Name Service Switch does not use NIS
Name Service Switch does not use NIS
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Name Service Switch does not use NIS
Medium Severity
Each call to a function which retrieves data from a system database like the password or group database is handled by the Name Service Switch implementation in the GNU C library. The various services provided are implemented by independent modules, each of which naturally varies widely from the other. One of such modules is the
nis
module, which allows to get information from NIS servers.