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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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[–] teft@piefed.social 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

He’s the third highest contributor to archinstall.

https://github.com/dylanmtaylor

Still a dipshit but probably not a bot.

[–] StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Fair enough that's pretty surprising, so even Arch is not safe from lunatics... That is disappointing. As a Manjaro user, I am likely to pick up their changes via both systemd and since Manjaro is Arch based... Sad and disappointed by useful morons who have no fucking clue.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

it's so strange to me that he tried to add age verification scripting changes in archinstall. isn't that the wrong place systemd makes sense but I'm puzzled by the archinstall pr

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The thing that's frustrating is that if the age verification laws weren't there and they wanted to add a birthday field it wouldn't seem bad. Details about the human using the account like first and last name are already stored. All you really need is username. But because it's explicitly in reaction to age verification laws we have to be skeptical about adding it.

[–] khleedril@cyberplace.social 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

@JackbyDev @underscores Yes we do, because it is an erosion of our freedom.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

You're saying that in a post age verification world though, my whole point is that if this were there before it wouldn't seem bad. I'm not saying we should add it now because it would've been fine before.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

fascist cocks won't suck themselves.