Stores the user’s birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc.
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Fun fact, systemd also has a field for the user’s full name, which they (shocking, I know) don’t verify. Most distros ask for it as well.
It can’t actually be used to verify anything. As implemented, it just reports whatever you entered. It’s just as valid as those birthday fields on websites that cater to users that share a 1st of January birthday.
I think we all know where we are headed
The best kind of age verification
And it can be used to verify how old you are.
How?
This is the part I’m hung up on. What actually physically happens to make me enter my real birthday in the systemd user field, and verify it’s actually my birthday?
January 1 1900 has been my official online birthday forever.
I guess the idea is that your parents store the date and you don’t get root access (or you store the date for your kids and don’t give them root access).
Then what? What stops the kids downloading and running whatever software they like?
Linux is build with different users in mind. So it is not a problem to forbid a user to run any program the root don’t like, or run only programs the root like.
I was born on January 1st, whichever year before 2000 that I first click on.
Right? I’m not scrolling that far down. Somewhere within the last 18 years is good enough.
within??
I’m a dog on the Internet.
If I say I’m 10 I’m actually 77 and to suggest otherwise is discrimination.
Well there’s no arguing with that…
We have different concepts on what “verified” data is.
Systemd has a field which could be used to store age, which a system which has age verification could use to store the age.
Just like the system which performs age verification could store that information in a file.
I guess ext4 is age verification as it allows storing age of birth.
how can i stop the government?
Didn’t they shitcan the age verification thing in systemd and they fire the guy who put it in? Or was that just a joke post?
Name: Biggus Dickus DOB: 06/09/1969
@mazzilius_marsti @Deceptichum
OMG! I’ve been dox’d, I feel so naked…I think I went to highschool with your wife…
Yeah, thats not age verification…
It is not age verification
It could be used as part of a age verification system but it isn’t by itself age verification. You are doing the equivalent of calling a set of tires a car.
This is getting really old, really damn fast.
Luckiky we can track that now!
Well it’s only going to get worse as more states start pushing for it.
We can either make a stand and kick up a fuss now or lose a free internet
Maybe…I misinterpreted your post. I think I’m on your side actually 😄
Absolutely against the DoB addition, yep.
And so are the users, according to the age verification field
How does it verify anything if it’s not proven in any way?
It doesn’t verify how old you are, it verified that you entered a certain set of numbers at some point.
Boring dystopia :(
You want the exciting kind? We aren’t the ones it’s fun for.
As long as you can put whatever you want it’s a form of parental control and not age verification.
We could also use the term “age declaration”.
It’s not by itself an outrageous feature (what does that even mean, outrageous feature). What is outrageous is that governments around the world are starting to think they have the authority to compel this.
