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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Alibaba Cloud Linux 3
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An XCCDF Group - A logical subset of the XCCDF Benchmark
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The Network Information Service (NIS), also known as 'Yellow Pages' (YP), and its successor NIS+ have been made obsolete by Kerberos, LDAP, and other modern centralized authentication services. NIS should not be used because it suffers from security problems inherent in its design, such as inadequate protection of important authentication information.
Remove NIS Client
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The Network Information Service (NIS), formerly known as Yellow Pages, is a client-server directory service protocol used to distribute system configuration files. The NIS client (
ypbind
) was used to bind a system to an NIS server and receive the distributed configuration files.