diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f69e9e3e9..2ed1f1624 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - yq: Bump products to use `4.45.2` ([#1090]).
 - cyclonedx-bom: Bump airflow and superset to use `6.0.0` ([#1090]).
 - vector: Bump to `0.46.1` ([#1098]).
+- Changed default user & group IDs from 1000/1000 to 782252253/574654813 ([#916])
 
 ### Fixed
 
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - opa: Remove `0.67.1` ([#1103]).
 - opa: Remove legacy bundle-builder from container build ([#1103]).
 
+[#916]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/916
 [#1025]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1025
 [#1027]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1027
 [#1028]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1028
diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
index c3a016e16..918e781f1 100644
--- a/conf.py
+++ b/conf.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 
 args = {
     "STACKABLE_USER_NAME": "stackable",
-    "STACKABLE_USER_UID": "1000",
-    "STACKABLE_USER_GID": "1000",
+    "STACKABLE_USER_UID": "782252253",  # This is a random high id to not conflict with any existing user
+    "STACKABLE_USER_GID": "574654813",  # This is a random high id to not conflict with any existing group
     "DELETE_CACHES": "true",
 }