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ah, an OpenBSD submission on the front page! time to remind everyone that uses OpenSSH to donate to the OpenBSD Foundation.

Hey everybody who uses OpenSSH (I cannot fathom a single person reading this who does not regularly use OpenSSH), donate to the OpenBSD Foundation: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/

Yes, it's Canadian. No, you can't write it off your taxes. Why? Because there aren't enough donations to make the accounting and legal costs to do so viable. Want your donations to be tax deductible? Get (more of) your OpenSSH using friends (and companies!) to donate (more) and it just might happen!

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Heh. I wonder if someone could code up a PAM module that would make a tiny BitCoin donation every time a remote ssh login was performed. Like, a voluntary thing that people could install to support the project.

Oh yes, please make my logins traceable for all eternity....

logistically that's unworkable for a number of reasons (bitcoin fees make micro payments...less useful; PAM is...not ideal; etc.) but a fine thought nonetheless.

You could have it accumulate a wallet and send over when it reaches sufficient magnitude. Or have it tally the number of times it would have done it, and then ping you when you've used it a sufficient amount, for whatever definition that is for you. Think Sublime Text save dialogs for the non-paid version.

It could just count the number of logins and do a transaction at the end of the day|week|month

There's no PAM on OpenBSD.

Indeed, BSD Auth serves a similar function on OpenBSD, except for the ability to make silly configuration mistakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Authentication

http://man.openbsd.org/authenticate.3

Individuals (and companies) can also donate directly to Theo, to thank him for the years of work that went into making CDs.

https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html

Also you can donate hardware to developers, who are volunteers:

https://www.openbsd.org/want.html

Has the OpenBSD Foundation looked into registering with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization? The IRS probably has 10-12x more tax payers than the CRA which would make it easier to cover the required overhead.

It looks like the requirements are a $275 application fee, an EIN (so the Foundation would need to apply for one), and an annual information return. No need to incorporate or form a separate US entity.

Project is based in Canada.

> (I cannot fathom a single person reading this who does not regularly use OpenSSH)

We're real and we're here!

But.. How do you remotely connect to your machines?

For the most part, I just use one machine, which is physically adjacent to me. I'm not doing devops. I'm just doing dev. My workstation has a development database, web server, and everything else it needs. In the rare cases I need to connect interactively with other machines, I use graphical remote desktop.

Remote Desktop on Windows.

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