HD permissions stay put

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 7/3/2011 8:59 PM, JD wrote:
>
> How about just modifying the user's uid gid (while su'ed to root):
> usermod -u NEW-UID -g NEW-GID LoginName
> chown -R NEW-UID.NEW-GID ~LoginName
> exit su shell
> Log out
> and log back in.
>
>
I was assuming that uid shouldn't be changed once committed to a user 
(this was from 1980's and may be incorrect now ... or even back then but 
I didn't know it)?