Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records

wasting_time

If anything, the POSIX passwd specification should be updated to include age instead of introducing yet another dependency on systemd for something that affects the entire ecosystem.

badgersnake

It would be a surprise to everyone if systemdb did the right thing.

3eb7988a1663

Poster failed to add that camelCase was obviously a bad call.

noosphr

Systemd has gone from a technical cancer for Linux systems to a political one. If only every major distribution didn't break backwards compatibility to play with the cool kids. Time to get back to programs that do one thing and do it well.

tomth

Age verification through the OS could make parental control much easier. Just set the age of your child on a given system with your own account, and apps and websites can signal what the minimum age is, and then the OS can decide to block it or not. Could be very privacy friendly compared to the current online methods, like what Discord did. Of course, I'm not in favour of actual verification of the age attribute. And I've heard the slippery slope arguments. But if I were a parent this would be great. Problem with setting up parental controls currently is that it takes some effort and knowledge of these tools, not every parent has that. I mean, even people who do, are usually chaotic in the digital domain, like for example, (re-)using very bad passwords. So why expect people to do better with parental controls?

jlund-molfese

It rubs me the wrong way that the person opening this PR says "we have decided not to implement OS-level age attestation" when they seem to have no prior involvement with systemd, and it's clearly not their call to make. I wouldn't go so far as to call it astroturfing, but it's the same thing that's irksome about anyone claiming to speak on behalf of a group they actually have no involvement in. Feels like someone trying to score cheap points.

crooked-v

The "we have decided not to" in the initial post is weird. Was this somebody trying to, what, gaslight the maintainers into changing their mind?

monksy

Richard Stallman stikes again about his statements on free and open systems. (With those you can fork and remove nonsense)

bradleyy

While disappointing, Poettering is essentially a "wrong decision machine" so I don't know what anyone would expect. And the author of the PR came in a little hot, which probably didn't help.