Bug 9122

Summary:	Files may be accidentaly deleted when NIS domain name is set to an invalid value
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Marius Larsen Jxhndal <mlj>
Component:	ypbind	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Description Marius Larsen Jxhndal 2000-02-04 15:39:13 UTC

This is more a user error than it is a bug, but it still made me wipe all
of /etc/rc.d/init.d/ by accident on my company's NIS server. When stopping
ypbind, the command

  rm -f /var/yp/binding/$(domainname)*

is executed. Imagine what happened when I made the incredibly stupid
mistake of setting the NIS domain name to " " (that is one single
space)...

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-02-04 16:16:59 UTC

This should be fixed in ypbind-3.3-26 and later.  Thanks for the suggestion.