Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:25:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org> Cc: michaelsprivate@gmail.com, bsd-lists@bsdforge.com, vince@vincentbentley.co.uk, vermaden@interia.pl, imp@bsdimp.com, freebsd-pkg@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Practical suggestions for resolving the Age Verification problem Message-ID: <202603101625.62AGPSRV060152@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <202603101228.62ACSKxx074330@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net>
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> Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote: > > > way their regulated already. Adding another category and applying appropriate > > perms to match. It basically changes nothing in the way a system regulates > > user categories now. I was simply suggesting adding another (age based) > > category. > > Perms can be set accordingly. > > If you're going down that sort of route, why not just add a bunch of new > groups to /etc/group: > > not_verified_13:*:newuser1,newuser2 > not_verified_18:*:newuser3,newuser4 > not_verified_21:*:newuser5,newuser6 > > Of course, that would need to be manually altered when someone reaches an age milestone, > but that would be the same with an extra field. > > Still (and this isn't directed at you), I think the whole thing is stupid and doomed > to failure. > > Besides, this would be moot for someone running a FreeBSD desktop, or other system > they control, and for things like web-based services that use a FreeBSD backend, they'll > already have higher level authorisation controls baked into the system. > > So, it probably would only work for the small percentage of pre university aged > children who access remote unix systems to play nethack in the terminal! :-) > > </bikeshedding> FYI: unix already have a way to store birthdays, it is called calendar, please see /usr/share/calendar/calendar for many of ``our'' birthdays. Expand that and add the appropriate API's would be one way to go. Though I really think these pieces of legislation well ultimately fail in the courts as untenable solutions to a social problem. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.orghome | help
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