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Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux (github.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev
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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 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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[-] eleijeep@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago

I thought that the law hasn’t even passed yet? Why are distros so eager to show legislators that they’re on board for being regulated?

[-] Muehe@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

The only one apparently eager to implement this is the dylanmtaylor Github user, who has created PR's for systemd, archinstall, and Ubuntu. Maybe more.

[-] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

The California bill was approved and signed into law back in October:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

[-] StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

Its only one state, the rest of the world for now still have some fucking sense. If anything its disproportionate to appease a local government with global systems, whats next? Appease North Korea? Or Putin? Block Linux from working in Ukraine? How fucking insane is this dipshit to add changes to a global product for a thing that affects only 40m people out of fucking billions?

[-] Muehe@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

But hasn't taken effect yet:

This bill, beginning January 1, 2027, would require, [...]

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