Bradford White
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# BusyBox, Orwellian Edition
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Given that states and countries are now requiring that operating systems report
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the age of users, it is important that BusyBox be able to comply. Why? BusyBox
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is used in embedded devices that qualify for regulation under these bills (such
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as California's [AB-1043](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043)).
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For most hardware, this would actually amount to just reporting epoc for root,
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as most devices won't directly have users. Applications on those may, but those
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usually have their own user management features.
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This patch adds the `-b` option to BusyBox's adduser, and will record a birthday
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in YYYYMMDD format. This can then be used to determine age, and/or the age
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bracket of the user via the standard UNIX shell which serves as the UNIX
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API/ABI, and thus makes BusyBox compliant with the law. The two UNIX commands
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added here are `howoldami` and `useragerange`.
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