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…

    • Digit@lemmy.wtf
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      1 month ago

      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.

      • Tja
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        1 month ago

        It is, thanks for the entertainment.