V-239521

Discussion

Disabling the "ypbind" service ensures the SLES for vRealize is not acting as a client in a NIS or NIS+ domain when not required.

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If network services are using the "ypbind" service, this is not applicable.

To check that the "ypbind" service is disabled in system boot configuration, run the following command: 

# chkconfig "ypbind" --list

Output should indicate the "ypbind" service has either not been installed, or has been disabled at all runlevels, as shown in the example below: 

ypbind 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off

Run the following command to verify "ypbind" is disabled through current runtime configuration: 

# service ypbind status

If the "ypbind" service is disabled the command will return the following output: 

Checking for service ypbind unused

If the "ypbind" service is running, this is a finding.