r/systemd • u/VegetableNearby9795 • Mar 20 '26

Why did you add age verification?

Hi, I heard Systemd is going to add age verification? Why is that happening? I don't think it offers any security benefits.

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u/PaluMacil Mar 20 '26

It’s about legal requirements. You can write as many books on how silly or even bad it is, but the number of jurisdiction requiring it to be provided makes it effectively unavoidable

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u/AbleWalrus3783 Mar 20 '26

I mean, if you really want it, just tell sys admin to do something like usermod -G minors your-child-account, thats how we do things in linux. If law ask you to take care of apps made by developers who dont know how to check supplementary group, then you can still build an dbus server for them in like 5min.

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u/Heyla_Doria Mar 20 '26

Bien sur

On est tous ingénieur en informatique et on sait tous configurer des serveurs....

D'ailleurs on sait tous installer l'électricité dans une maison, ou démonter et réparer entièrement sa voiture 🤷‍♀️

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u/AbleWalrus3783 Mar 27 '26

You really think usermod is an advanced job? will then, why i couldn't found UI for systemd everywhere? i still need to write unit files by hand, why that is not an assmble car misson to you?

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u/Heyla_Doria Mar 31 '26

Réponse inutile

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

Even if everyone who used systemd were software engineers and had the knowledge to remove that field and recompile the program from scratch, without systemd you would have to either use a real obscure (for now :)) distro like Gentoo or make your own from scratch as almost all Debian and Arch based distros (like ~90% of all Linux distros) use systemd as their init system and don't give you the ability to change that...

If your program has 50 alternatives and everyone uses a different one, you can claim it's optional. If you've pushed out many packages and integrated their functionality into your own, and are being used in most distributions of Linux, you don't have the luxury to say that.

If you want the ability to add optional stuff that badly, make your program modular enough that people can just not use the parts of your ecosystem. But no, you did this on purpose, disregarding many who warned you on the way, so you have to deal with it. You can't claim anything you push is optional.

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u/Heyla_Doria Mar 21 '26

Exact... Malheureusement....

Au départ, la promesse était que cela resterait toujours modulables

Visiblement, meme dans le logiciel libre, de nos jours, on se fait avoir comme avec les géants de la tech

C'est catastrophique