newgrp

change to a new group

TLDR

Change user's primary group membership

$ newgrp [group_name]

Reset primary group membership to user's default group in /etc/passwd

$ newgrp

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.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Display help text and exit.

-V, --version

Print version and exit.

FILES

/etc/group, /etc/passwd

AUTHORS

Originally by Michael Haardt. Currently maintained by

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.

AVAILABILITY

The newgrp command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.