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…
“We’ve determined you’re using an illegal OS. You’re under arrest!”
People get arrested for ones and zeros all the time.
Or you know, just getting a lot of accesses blocked, your ISP blocking you, etc.
No matter how you put it, it’s more risk than inputting a bullshit field at install.
My ISP doesn’t know which os I’m using, I behind two NATs and a proxy…
Good for you.
Now what about others that are not in your situation? What if this gets flagged as a suspicious behavior? What if your ISP blocks access to devices that are not allowed by a third party (government or company)?
You can always make a slippery slope. The difference is that complying for now brings nothing bad, not complying brings more focus and puts a target on linux and its users.
Everyone is behind at least one NAT, the wifi router.
No wifi here.
I prefer my health.
And not to have security vulnerability to echo location 3D picture of everything in my house.
Lol
Not sure what’s funny about that.
Did you read that like it was an absurd implausibility?
May want to dig a little deeper.
It’s not funny.
It is, thanks for the entertainment.
Generally provided by the ISP, no?