newgrp
Hurricane Electric Internet Services
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 calcula-
tions 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).
Hurricane Electric Internet Services
Copyright (C) 1998
Hurricane Electric.
All Rights Reserved.