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How to Remove Age Verification on systemd

R4shSec
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R4shSec
I like it when things work how they’re not supposed to.
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This only affects systemd v260+. Most Linux Operating Systems (OS) are alright as it comes with systemd v259.

A Github Pull Request (PR) #40954 was made so the birthDate field is stored in the users JSON records. This has caused a lot of backlash on social media. Despite the backlash, the developers behind systemd didn’t remove it.

How to remove it?
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I made a GitHub repository with the previous age assurance changes reverted.

git clone https://github.com/r4shsec/systemd-no-age-verification.git
cd systemd-no-age-verification
meson setup build/ --prefix=/usr
ninja -C build/

Alternatives
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This only affects systemd. You could use other init systems such as openrc.


Thanks, hope it helped!