Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8AF64FCF8 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:55:01 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36380-09 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:55:01 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.179]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E295164FC77 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:54:59 -0400 (AST) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j4so1282375wah.19 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:54:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=OAvvbTAM45LYxCq4FHuxD+SMD2IqoXHeS1ux+ETw5H4=; b=owwKZ870MK/yIGSgb8tkOetCmvbllYVnpigJDuz5MD4tfw1iNI/03Zb+uOQ80OCXjI B9EBAHBUYYbWknekhhIHO1FynbvhRJxt4YLjU8RESh+H7SXiRiBdCsFEOtjFUaKKA2Pl WL3Dlk1P0mUGEsGN3RRgolj6iAukksmVZ77Hk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=EnPqdVjYCrAoblZCtHfskyij4ylIneqdnonPvoKPOF/Nl34VP/f4jr3ygelOLEh8po UL60sPHHWRNiODEUxaQRFk3rgqBPwl1zBAnA3UHjEnc/P7f/mbE7aYJgbMEwhT91Taj+ 6Z4WMv5keKh+JdMB/QeA5lUd525lCnM3i+iMI= Received: by 10.115.48.12 with SMTP id a12mr4479551wak.140.1226339697770; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:54:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.39.11 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:54:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:54:57 -0700 From: "Scott Marlowe" To: "Dana Holland" Subject: Re: installing without shell access Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <49185831.2060303@navarrocollege.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49185831.2060303@navarrocollege.edu> X-Archive-Number: 200811/52 X-Sequence-Number: 30706 On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Dana Holland 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.