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Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux (github.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 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 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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 5 points 5 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 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Brazil has something similar. Other US states are working on it. And the UK, some EU countries, Australia and others are pushing for the same. This won't be just California for long: it's a worldwide push to make it impossible to do anything involving a computer without first disclosing your real identity to the authorities.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/online-age-verification-a-complete-global-timeline

[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

But hasn't taken effect yet:

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