Post #1362341
2026-04-18 18:59 UTC
Not enough people are talking about the rationale for systemd introducing the age field in userdbd (which is *not* mandatory and currently fully *optional*). In the very post here, it is clear that they are doing it because xdg-desktop-portal(!) is adding an age verification thingy (and potentially also accountsservice). This IMO is *far* more dangerous because those components are essential nowadays.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954
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@chiraag@mastodon.online 2026-04-18 19:02
We can, at least for the time being, avoid systemd-userdbd. Avoiding portals, though, is way more complicated. That specific MR seems to have been closed (https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922), but IDK if they're going to try again. The other one is still open (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176)