new to drupal and new to this forum - well i want to have much controll over the installation / update and so on! i run a linux root server that is administered by a friend of mine. At the moment i work with filezilla.


well some guys say that drush is a trivial installation: Drush seems to require no configuration. It works perfect out-of-box. Drush looks for configuration files in several places. Settings in later found files override those in earlier. In order, the places where Drush looks are:

> Drush installation directory,  the home directory (as .drushrc.php), 
> root directory of a Drupal installation, and  site directory of a
> Drupal installation.  Since the configuration files are just PHP
> scripts, they can  contain any PHP code that you would like to have
> executed on startup of Drush.  one could for instance call ini_set()
> to set the value of a PHP configuration option.

the configuration file /opt/drush/drushrc.php with following content:


    <?php # Allow Drush to use 128 MB of memory. Use -1 for no limit. ini_set('memory_limit', '128M'); ?> 

This gives Drush 128 MB of memory to use. It's necessary because PHP default 

**Well the question of question** is: Do i have to have root-permíssions on the server. 'Or am i able to work with drush  - witout having root permissions?

That means can i have fun with drush - if i am not the root of the server!?