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…
What does he mean by required? This law would apply to a tiny fraction of users - no one in my continent for example. I hope he understands there’s no way it should be required for everyone.
This law affects exactly 0 users on my entire content… So why do I need this nonsense? Even systemd change is bullshit and doesn’t affect me or anyone on my continent.