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Groff
35 lines
938 B
Groff
.\" Original author unknown. This man page is in the public domain.
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.\" Modified Sat Oct 9 17:46:48 1993 by faith@cs.unc.edu
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.TH NEWGRP 1 "October 1993" "util-linux" "User Commands"
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.SH NAME
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newgrp \- log in to a new group
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B newgrp
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.RI [ group ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B newgrp
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changes the group identification of its caller, analogously to
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.BR login (1).
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The same person remains logged in, and the current directory
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is unchanged, but calculations of access permissions to files are performed
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with respect to the new group ID.
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.LP
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If no group is specified, the GID is changed to the login GID.
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.LP
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.SH FILES
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.I /etc/group
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.br
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.I /etc/passwd
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR login (1),
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.BR group (5)
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.SH AUTHOR
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Originally by Michael Haardt. Currently maintained by
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Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk).
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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The newgrp command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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