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Operating Systems Linux Linux 7.3 & Sun Solaris 8 - common account login Post 46154 by RTM on Friday 9th of January 2004 09:12:00 AM
Old 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)
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