Can local accounts and NIS+ accounts be shared

[nanogoo]

I have a user on a Linux box with user 'test'
I also have NIS+ provisioned with a user 'test'

The local user has alot of environment setup within the home account that
needs to stay there. The NIS+ 'test' account is required for a different set
of servers but is shared by the server with local 'test' user. I am trying to
understand if they can be coerced into being the same user account i.e.
NIS+ records map to the local Jabber account. So on other boxes in the network
the NIS+ account will be available, but logging into the Linux box mentioned
above, you adopt NIS settings for 'test' user but also adopt the local
environment and home account already established for test user.

Is this possible? And how would it be achieved?

[Roxoff]

All you'd need to do is have the NIS server provide the UID/GID that matches the local user.

I don't know what you'd gain from this, though. NIS is usually all about centralising accounts, passwords, etc. If you do this, changing the user's password on the NIS server wouldn't have any effect on the machine that was using the local account - you'd effectively have two passwords to the account.

Maybe you just need to remove the Linux test machine from the NIS domain?