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1 | .\" Original author unknown. This man page is in the public domain. |
| 2 | .\" Modified Sat Oct 9 17:46:48 1993 by faith@cs.unc.edu | |
| 726f69e2 | 3 | .TH NEWGRP 1 "9 October 1993" "Linux 1.2" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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4 | .SH NAME |
| 5 | newgrp \- log in to a new group | |
| 6 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 7 | .BI "newgrp [ " group " ]" | |
| 8 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 9 | .B Newgrp | |
| 10 | changes the group identification of its caller, analogously to | |
| 11 | .BR login (1). | |
| 12 | The same person remains logged in, and the current directory | |
| 13 | is unchanged, but calculations of access permissions to files are performed | |
| 14 | with respect to the new group ID. | |
| 15 | .LP | |
| 16 | If no group is specified, the GID is changed to the login GID. | |
| 17 | .LP | |
| 18 | .SH FILES | |
| 19 | .I /etc/group | |
| 20 | .br | |
| 21 | .I /etc/passwd | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 24 | .BR login "(1), " group (5) | |
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25 | |
| 26 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 27 | Originally by Michael Haardt. Currently maintained by | |
| 28 | Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk). | |
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29 | |
| 30 | .SH AVAILABILITY | |
| 31 | The newgrp command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from | |
| 32 | ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. |