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…
If you really don’t see this as a problem with governments instituting this you are exactly who I am talking about. Keep drinking the koolaid bud
Governments should not be requiring this of operating systems; it’s absurd on many levels.
But actually implementing it is still pretty innocuous.
need a “/s” on that last line?
Maybe just a clarification. Implementing optional fields is innocuous. Implementing requirements is not.