I'm trying to get a Ruby on Rails Web Application running on a server at school, and I need sudo privileges to do so. For this, I also need PostgreSQL installed as well.
I know that after installation, all that I'll need for PostgreSQL is the usr/local/pgsql/bin
, usr/local/pgsql/inlcude
, usr/local/pgsql/lib
, and so on.. but I'm not particularly sure what kind of privileges I'm going to need during installation.
Also, is it possible for me to install Ruby on Rails without any sudo privileges?
The reason that I can't do everything as a root is because its a school server, and giving a student root access isn't particularly something that the server admin should do. She has to edit the /etc/sudoers file and assign me root access to the appropriate folder(s).