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.
FILES
/etc/group
/etc/passwd
SEE ALSO
login(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-ng package
and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
Original author unknown. This man page is in the public domain.
Modified Sat Oct 9 17:46:48 1993 by faithcs.unc.edu