Mastodawn

Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux - Lemmy.ca

> 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. 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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itsathursday Mar 24

My Linux based IOT devices will now need age verification for default accounts…? And now any devices will expect to have non-shareable specific accounts…? So to open my fridge and use its apps I need to verify as me…? I’m me?

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ascend Mar 24

I thought it was an optional field, like the name field

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dohpaz42

In systemd it would be optional. This post is about the OS making it a requirement to ask the user birthdate and using said optional field to store it.