01-09-2004
If you aren't running NIS or some other service, then no, you won't get a common login account. You can use NIS with Linux as stated in
linux-nis.org.
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yppoll(8) System Manager's Manual yppoll(8)
NAME
yppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map
SYNOPSIS
yppoll [ -h host ] [ -d domain ] mapname
DESCRIPTION
yppoll
OPTIONS
-h host
Ask the NIS server process running on host for information about mapname. If host is not specified, the server polled is the
default server returned by ypwhich(1).
-d domain
Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by domainname(8).
SEE ALSO
domainname(8), ypbind(8), ypcat(8), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), ypset(8), ypwhich(1)
AUTHOR
yppoll is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.
YP Tools 2.12 April 2010 yppoll(8)