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"textContent": "submitted by pglpm to linux\n15 points | 10 comments\nhttps://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290\n\n> 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.\n>\n> **Motivation**\n>\n> 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.\n\nThis is just a pull request, no changes yet.\n\nThe 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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