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 file replaces the adduser.c in BusyBox, and it differs from the original in
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offering a `-b` option which will add user's birthday to `/etc/birthdays`. The
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birthday needs to be passed in YYYYMMDD format, and it will be stored as such.
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Two example scripts exist here to offer the commands `howoldami` and
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`useragerange` which will provide either the user's age or one of the age ranges
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specified in California's bill. As the standard UNIX interface and signal system
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is plain text, this change to adduser and the accompanying scripts transform the
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BusyBox + Linux system into a compliant operating system for those who require
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it.
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