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NEWGRP
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
REPORTING BUGS
AVAILABILITY
NAME
newgrp - log in to a new group
SYNOPSIS
newgrp [ group [ command ]]
newgrp [ -c command ] [ 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 performed with respect to the new group ID.
If no group is specified, the GID is changed to the login GID.
An optional command can be specified, which is invoked after group change instead of the userโs shell.
OPTIONS
-c , --command = command
Pass command to the userโs shell with the -c option.
-h , --help
Display help text and exit.
-V , --version
Display version and exit.
FILES
/etc/group , /etc/passwd
AUTHORS
Originally by Michael Haardt. Currently maintained by Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>.
SEE ALSO
login (1), group (5)
REPORTING BUGS
For bug reports, use the issue tracker <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.
AVAILABILITY
The newgrp command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.