newgrp(1) — Linux manual page
NEWGRP(1) User Commands NEWGRP(1)
NAME
newgrp - log in to a new group
SYNOPSIS
newgrp [-] [group]
DESCRIPTION
The newgrp command is used to change the current group ID during a login session. If the optional - flag is given, the user's environment will be reinitialized as though the user had logged in, otherwise the current environment, including current working directory, remains unchanged. newgrp changes the current real group ID to the named group, or to the default group listed in /etc/passwd if no group name is given. newgrp also tries to add the group to the user groupset. If not root, the user will be prompted for a password if she does not have a password (in /etc/shadow if this user has an entry in the shadowed password file, or in /etc/passwd otherwise) and the group does, or if the user is not listed as a member and the group has a password. The user will be denied access if the group password is empty and the user is not listed as a member. If there is an entry for this group in /etc/gshadow, then the list of members and the password of this group will be taken from this file, otherwise, the entry in /etc/group is considered.
CONFIGURATION
The following configuration variables in /etc/login.defs change the behavior of this tool: SYSLOG_SG_ENAB (boolean) Enable "syslog" logging of sg activity.
FILES
/etc/passwd User account information. /etc/shadow Secure user account information. /etc/group Group account information. /etc/gshadow Secure group account information.
SEE ALSO
id(1), login(1), su(1), sg(1), gpasswd(1), group(5), gshadow(5).
COLOPHON
This page is part of the shadow-utils (utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files) project. Information about the project can be found at ⟨https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to pkg-shadow-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net. This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository ⟨https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow⟩ on 2024-06-15. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the repository was 2024-06-13.) If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org shadow-utils 4.14.0 06/15/2024 NEWGRP(1)
Pages that refer to this page: flock(1), gpasswd(1), groups(1@@shadow-utils), pmdammv(1), sg(1), group(5), gshadow(5), credentials(7)