[JerryW]

Yes and No

If you just need it for development and testing while you wait on the passwords, you can build it and run it out of your home directory. you'll have to play with some of the flags to get it to listen on a different port and store the databases locally. But it won't start if the server reboots, so it's not for production

For a production one, you need root access since you have to put files in /usr/local and /etc.