Re: Practical suggestions for resolving the Age Verification problem

On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM Chris <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2026-03-09 10:39, vermaden wrote:
> > Lucas Holt from MidnightBSD just created aged(8) here:
> > - https://github.com/MidnightBSD/src/tree/master/usr.sbin/aged
>
> While I think the initiative as written is untenable (unenforceable)
> Wouldn't it be enough to write an additional field to adduser(8)
> say; born / over 13? Then allow ports to use it as they so choose?
> It's a dead simple approach w/ near zero work/overhead.
>

Speaking as a "naive" user and developer:
Where would you want to store that information? the GECOS field is known
nearly universally, you can't just change it, it'd break ... lots ot stuff.

Besides: storing people's age in a publicly visible place probably wouldn't
fly with many people, esp in the EU.

regars
Michael


> >
> > Regards,
> > vermaden
>
> --Chris



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