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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2023-01-14 22:13:54 +0300 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2023-01-14 22:13:54 +0300 |
| commit | 34b361c903c6409a41c9404590885d4d4b7c6a06 (patch) | |
| tree | 8aae717e6d3ff6678fdfbd2b46b596a17d0e04a8 /winsup/doc/utils.xml | |
| parent | 62b9c98f12ff58e870ac42d2cd1b6860bf371ae0 (diff) | |
Cygwin: newgrp: improve doumentation
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc/utils.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/utils.xml | 28 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/utils.xml b/winsup/doc/utils.xml index 927dc7c6b..71c220d30 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/utils.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/utils.xml @@ -1967,26 +1967,32 @@ D: on /d type fat (binary,user,noumount) <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"> |