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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 c
by pyvpx 9y ago
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/ 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!
- kobeya 9y agoIs there a foundation I can donate to for replacing OpenSSH? Yes I use that insecure, bug-ridden mess everyday, and am frightened of that fact.
- gpm 9y agoOpenSSH is "insecure and bug-ridden"? Perhaps you're thinking of OpenSSL? As I understand it OpenSSH has had a pretty good security track record. If so, consider donating to the OpenBSD foundation. See libreSSL.
- AsyncAwait 9y agoHuh? Perhaps you confused OpenSSH with OpenSSL? Just to clarify, OpenSSH implements the SSH protocol, an encrypted Telnet replacement for remote login into machines. OpenSSL is used to secure web traffic in transit and is the one with the Heartbleed fiasco. They're different entities.
- danieldk 9y agoI think the grandparent is indeed confused, but just to be pedantic: OpenSSH used to use OpenSSL as it's library for cryptography primitives. Of course, it switched to LibreSSL when LibreSSL was forked from OpenSSL.
- pyvpx 9y agoI'm going to guess you meant OpenSSL, in which case yes, there is a Foundation for that. Perhaps (not so) surprisingly, it's the same one that supports OpenSSH development. You'll find LibreSSL mentioned right on the front page!
- IgorPartola 9y agoHeh. 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.
- pyvpx 9y agologistically 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.
- Kametrixom 9y agoIt could just count the number of logins and do a transaction at the end of the day|week|month
- _asummers 9y agoYou 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.
- ams6110 9y agoThere's no PAM on OpenBSD.
- brynet 9y agoIndeed, BSD Auth serves a similar function on OpenBSD, except for the ability to make silly configuration mistakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Authentication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Authentication http://man.openbsd.org/authenticate.3 http://man.openbsd.org/authenticate.3
- jlg23 9y agoOh yes, please make my logins traceable for all eternity....
- notaplumber 9y agoIndividuals (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 https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html Also you can donate hardware to developers, who are volunteers: https://www.openbsd.org/want.html https://www.openbsd.org/want.html
- recursive 9y ago> (I cannot fathom a single person reading this who does not regularly use OpenSSH) We're real and we're here!
- ymse 9y agoBut.. How do you remotely connect to your machines?
- DenisM 9y agoRemote Desktop on Windows.
- recursive 9y agoFor 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.
- uiri 9y agoHas 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.
- jakeroberts 9y agoProject is based in Canada.