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…
it’s not helping, they’re actually being set up to take the fall so to speak by Meta https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html
Meta is lobbying for all this crap and forcing it on everyone else (including Linux) with the only exception being…Meta. Google, Apple, etc will be in the same boat as Linux with Meta leveraging itself as the potential only “safe harbor”.