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…

  • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Ok, so the systemd change was acceptable (since it was optional), this is absolutely not. Fuck this shit. If it’s coming to NixOS I’m going to do everything I can to stop it, and otherwise I’m keeping a Nixpkgs patch that reverts the commit