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Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux (github.com)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/62271746

Add a required birth date prompt (YYYY-MM-DD) to the user creation flow, stored as a systemd userdb JSON drop-in at /etc/userdb/.user on the target system.

Motivation

Recent age verification laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. require platforms to verify user age. Collecting birth date at install time ensures Arch Linux is compliant with these regulations.

This is just a pull request, no changes yet.

The pull-request discussion thread has been locked, just like it happened for the similar thread in Systemd, owing to the amount of negative comments...

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[–] xyro@morbier.foo 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not mandatory AFAIK

[–] Tarambor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Neither is the DOB field.

[–] xyro@morbier.foo 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sound like you did not even open the link to look at the title. First thing you should see is the title of the PR "# user: add required birth date field to non-root user creation"

[–] Tarambor@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I don't need to because I ACTUALLY DID SOME RESEARCH rather than believing the bullshit being bandied around in the tech media. I bet you also believe that if you stand a Playstation 5 upright all the thermal compound leaks out too....ROFLMAO.

[–] xyro@morbier.foo 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Sound like someone who cannot read the code from the PR (PR stand for Pull Request), but sure you did your research 😂 "I don't need to read the source, someone dumb it down for me plz"