Systemd Offers Optional Age Verification

systemd, the init system and service manager used by most major Linux distributions, has added a new birthDate field to the user records in the database in response to new age verification laws around the world, It's FOSS reports.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/03/30/systemd-offers-optional-age-verification
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It’s called “boiling the frog”.

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FYI some threads and external websites about systemd’s birthDate and OS-level age verification are here.

Liberated systemd, a fork of systemd, was covered in this ItsFOSS article.

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BTW, liberated systemd isn’t lagging behind in commits anymore.

I hope distros scrap this age thing entirely. Should we add a criteria around this ? Seems a distro mandating an ID (which to be clear isn’t what systems intends) to age-check shall not be recommended.