Creating a group and becoming a member without logout/login Yesterday, I started playing with an USB-to-serial adapter. As it turned out, my user was not allowed to access /dev/ttyUSB0, because the user was not part of the uucp group. Adding a user to a group is easy on Arch/Manjaro: $ gpasswd -a [user] [group] or in my case: $ gpasswd -a jans uucp But to become a member of the group without having to logout and login a neat utility exists. Say hello to newgrp. $ groups sys network power docker lp wheel jans $ newgrp uucp $ groups uucp sys network power docker lp wheel jans Never heard of this tool, but changing group memberships is not what I tend to do once my system is configured. See man newgrp(1) for details.