Access is convoluted and exasperating, but with patience I can get quite a bit done. Ftp provides "chmod", but not "chown". I can create a cgi script on my home machine, upload it with ftp, make it executable with chmod +x, then browse the script to execute it. I've learned quite a bit about the server, but its perl and glibc are very old, and incompatible with anything I do on my home machine.