On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 23:25, Robert Connolly wrote: > The second option is to run rsync's deamon on my laptop, and rsync from the > phone via an ifup script that checks the SSID. This works nice because I > can charge the phone from an outlet, and do the rsync wirelessly. This is > harder to secure though, because I would want the rsync client to have no > other access to my laptop.
There's no reason why the phone has to log in to your laptop as the same user that you do. If you are afraid that somebody will exploit your phone, then exploit rsync, then exploit the openbsd kernel in order to get access to your files, in that case I'd advise taking a deep breath. :)
