user: add required birth date field to non-root user creation by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #4290 · archlinux/archinstall
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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>.user on the target system. Motivation Recent age verific...

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…

  • DigitEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    No wifi here.

    I prefer my health.

    And not to have security vulnerability to echo location 3D picture of everything in my house.

      • DigitEnglish
        11·
        2 months 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.