Re: installing without shell access

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.