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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 02:42:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 02:42:50 +0000 |
| commit | 8cb83eee5a58b1fad74c34094ce3afb9e430b5a4 (patch) | |
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| parent | Initial commit. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 2.33.1.upstream/2.33.1upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/login-utils/newgrp.1 b/login-utils/newgrp.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f85a8d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/login-utils/newgrp.1 @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +.\" Original author unknown. This man page is in the public domain. +.\" Modified Sat Oct 9 17:46:48 1993 by faith@cs.unc.edu +.TH NEWGRP 1 "October 1993" "util-linux" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +newgrp \- log in to a new group +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B newgrp +.RI [ group ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B newgrp +changes the group identification of its caller, analogously to +.BR 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. +.LP +If no group is specified, the GID is changed to the login GID. +.LP +.SH FILES +.I /etc/group +.br +.I /etc/passwd + +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR login (1), +.BR group (5) + +.SH AUTHOR +Originally by Michael Haardt. Currently maintained by +Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk). + +.SH AVAILABILITY +The newgrp command is part of the util-linux package and is available from +https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |