user: add required birth date field to non-root 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…

  • xyro@morbier.fooEnglish
    18·
    6 days ago

    On the systemd discussion : “Don’t worry bro, it’s not a mandatory field” 😂

          • xyro@morbier.fooEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            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.worldEnglish
              11·
              6 hours ago

              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.fooEnglish
                1·
                5 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”