Installing Drupal

I'm installing drupal on my hosted (shared) server and my provider are saying:

"Could you clarify specifically which privileges you require - we don't customarily supply all privileges on a database."

Any help much appreciated.

I am trying to get drupal setup and running. Modules and the like are no problem, but SQL server costs more, and I would rather just directly connect drupal to a drupal databse for user and post managment. If anyone has, or is working on this, I would appreciate a little help on the topic.

Thank you,

Daniel

Dear drupal gurus, I'm wondering if drupal will allow me to have a way of creating accounts for friends to use so they can submit news articles, forum posts and pictures and have their names appear after each news article or forum post or picture

i.e. I have friend called Ben who has pic of us surfing and he is able to post picture up (and every1 discuss it/make comments on it) using an account that has been requested by Ben with details put into form and then submitted to me to approve after reviewing submitted details?

Dear drupal gurus, I'm wondering if drupal will allow me to have a way of creating accounts for friends to use so they can submit news articles, forum posts and pictures and have their names appear after each news article or forum post or picture

i.e. I have friend called Ben who has pic of us surfing and he is able to post picture up (and every1 discuss it/make comments on it) using an account that has been requested by Ben with details put into form and then submitted to me to approve after reviewing submitted details?

1. Is it possible on my development system (Win/Apache) to use multiple directories with the same source code base?

2. I am a little unclear (as a Windows guy) how, on my Linux web server where my site is hosted, I am to use the following:

$ ls -l includes/*.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 drupal drupal includes/yourdomain.com.~joe.php

Ex. I have a domain ... www.abc.com and I want to have 3 different sites running using the same source code base ...

I've just started to play with Drupal with PostgreSQL. I'm using the
most recent version of Drupal from CVS (as recommended elsewhere
in the support forum). I'm running PostgreSQL 7.1.3, Apache 1.3.24,
and mod_php-4.2.2. All this is running under FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE.

When I try to create my first user, this is the error I get back: