From: Thomas Pundt <mlists@rp-online.de>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Dana Holland <dana.holland@navarrocollege.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: installing without shell access
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:08:42 +0100
Message-ID: <491878AA.3050503@rp-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dcc563d10811100954o24f37158l35f2f253c341805e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <49185831.2060303@navarrocollege.edu>
<dcc563d10811100954o24f37158l35f2f253c341805e@mail.gmail.com>
Scott Marlowe schrieb:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Dana Holland
> <dana.holland@navarrocollege.edu> wrote:
>> Is it at all possible to get pgsql installed on a system without access to a
>> shell? A friend is wanting me to install a particular bulletin board system
>> on her website; however, her hosting plan only provides the MySQL database -
>> the bulletin board requires pgsql. And her hosting plan has no ssh access.
>>
>> So, is it possible to install the database with only ftp access to the
>> account?
>
> most web languanges ala php allow you to execute arbitrary commands
> (using back ticks in php) so theoretically she could probably do it.
>
That reminds me having seen something like a shell implemented in PHP:
google for php-shell. I've never used such a beast, though.
Ciao,
Thomas
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