Details
These daemons are only required on systems that are acting as an NIS server for the local site. Typically there are only a small number of NIS servers on any given network. These services are disabled by default unless the system has been previously configured to act as a NIS server.
Solution
No action is necessary to disable NIS server daemons unless they have been specifically enabled by the administrator. If so, they may be disabled using the following commands –
svcadm disable svc:/network/nis/server
svcadm disable svc:/network/nis/passwd
svcadm disable svc:/network/nis/update
svcadm disable svc:/network/nis/xfr
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This control applies to the following type of system Unix.