NEWGRP(1) User Commands NEWGRP(1)NAME
newgrp - log in to a new group
SYNOPSIS
newgrp [group]
DESCRIPTION
newgrp changes the group identification of its caller, analogously to
login(1). The same person remains logged in, and the current directory
is unchanged, but calculations of access permissions to files are per‐
formed with respect to the new group ID.
If no group is specified, the GID is changed to the login GID.
FILES
/etc/group
/etc/passwd
SEE ALSOlogin(1), group(5)AUTHOR
Originally by Michael Haardt. Currently maintained by Peter Orbaek
(poe@daimi.aau.dk).
AVAILABILITY
The newgrp command is part of the util-linux package and is available
from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux October 1993 NEWGRP(1)