From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Dana Holland <dana.holland@navarrocollege.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: installing without shell access
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:54:57 -0700
Message-ID: <dcc563d10811100954o24f37158l35f2f253c341805e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49185831.2060303@navarrocollege.edu>
References: <49185831.2060303@navarrocollege.edu>
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.
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