{"description": "The Network Information Service (NIS), also known as 'Yellow\nPages' (YP), and its successor NIS+ have been made obsolete by\nKerberos, LDAP, and other modern centralized authentication\nservices. NIS should not be used because it suffers from security\nproblems inherent in its design, such as inadequate protection of\nimportant authentication information.", "warnings": [], "requires": [], "conflicts": [], "values": {}, "groups": {}, "rules": ["no_nis_in_nsswitch", "package_ypbind_removed", "package_ypserv_removed", "service_ypbind_disabled", "service_ypserv_disabled"], "platform": "", "platforms": [], "inherited_platforms": [], "cpe_platform_names": [], "title": "NIS", "definition_location": "/aptdata/openscap/scap-security-guide/linux_os/guide/services/obsolete/nis/group.yml"}