.\" 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 "9 October 1993" "Linux 1.2" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.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-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.