Re: Practical suggestions for resolving the Age Verification problem

On 2026-03-10 00:44, Michael Schuster wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> 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.
I was thinking more on the lines of permissions of different users in the 
same
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.
Seemed like an painless possibility. Maybe I'm over/under thinking it?
> 
> regars
> Michael
> 
> 
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > vermaden
>> 
>> --Chris

--Chris