Changing Primary User UID

[Aragorn]

@paul42

My user & group id is “user:x:1000:1000” & dialout is “dialout:x:1001:1000”
No idea why it’s like that unless that’s normal for Manjaro.

This all works fine but is it normal for the user to not be 1001?

That’s because you have (or had) autologin enabled. Without autologin, the UID:GID of the primary user is 1000:1000.

@paul42

Is it too risky to change my Manjaro user & group id’s to 1001?

You can do that, but then you also have to make sure that you chown all of your user’s own files to the new UID and GID. Or, you can use @anon33601770’s suggestion instead.