user: add required birth date field to user creation by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #4290 · archlinux/archinstall
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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>.user on the target system. Motivation Recent age verific...

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>.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…

  • endlesseden@pyfedi.deep-rose.orgEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    they will anyways. first person that gets found lying or disables it, they target the distro.

    the law was written to make compliance the metric for dissidence. all “users” are minors. identities flagged as not a minor is a lie, as users cannot be minors only “account holders”.

    it’s not written to support the Linux ecosystem. it’s specifically worded to exclude and target the Linux ecosystem if it tries to comply without using meta/google/Microsoft to handle accounts.