From: Aras Angelo <araskoktas@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: installing without shell access
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:49:37 -0800
Message-ID: <5136d4130811101049m13c1b739n2a54c8b0d4b0dad4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491878AA.3050503@rp-online.de>
References: <49185831.2060303@navarrocollege.edu>
<dcc563d10811100954o24f37158l35f2f253c341805e@mail.gmail.com>
<491878AA.3050503@rp-online.de>
gmake install requires root privileges.
It wont install with regular httpd user (apache, nobody etc.) on a php-shell
script or php system command functions.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Thomas Pundt <mlists@rp-online.de> wrote:
> 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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