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Cygwin: newgrp: improve doumentation 

Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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Corinna Vinschen 2023-01-14 20:13:54 +01:00
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<para><command>newgrp</command> changes the primary group for a
command.</para>
<para>If the '-' flag is given as first argument, the user's environment
will be reinitialized as though the user had logged in, otherwise the
current environment, including current working directory, remains
unchanged.</para>
<para>If the <option>-</option> flag is given as first argument, the
user's environment will be reinitialized as though the user had logged
in, otherwise the current environment, including current working
directory, remains unchanged.</para>
<para><command>newgrp</command> changes the current primary group to the
named group, or to the default group listed in /etc/passwd if no group
name is given.</para>
<para>By default, the user's standard shell is started, called as login
shell if the '-' flag has been specified. If a group has been given
as argument, a command and its arguments can be specified on the
command line.</para>
shell if the <option>-</option> flag has been specified. If a group
has been given as argument, a command and its arguments can be
specified on the command line.</para>
<para>Please note that setting the primary group to any arbitrary group
is no privileged operation on Windows. However, if this group is not
in your current user token, or if the group is in your user token but
marked as <literal>deny-only</literal>, no additional permissions can
be obtained by setting this group as primary group.</para>
is no privileged operation on Windows. However, even if this group is
not in your current user token, or if the group is in your user token
but marked as <literal>deny-only</literal>, no additional permissions
can be obtained by setting this group as primary group.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="newgrp-seealso">
<title>See also</title>
<para><command>id</command>(1), <command>login</command>(1).</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="passwd">