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Apparently this will include Linux...

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[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 23 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It isn't enforceable on the personal level, but every commercial distro will need an implementation (and let's be honest, they will each create their own) to sell pre-installed or to offer service for public and private device fleets.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 13 points 4 days ago

Let's just add it to systemd

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Meh, adding an age question to adduser wouldn't be that bad, we could even replace the current room number question

Can't wait to create all my accounts using the Unix epoch.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Depends if their non-profit is Californian or how deeply the mechanism is embedded into their base distro (if applicable).
If 0x0@infosec.pub is right and it's done through a simple addition to adduser (and the GUIs) every distro that doesn't actively patch against it, would get it upstream.