[chef-dev] How to install Chef without root access

[Noppanit Charassinvichai < >]

Hi,

We are trying to use Chef here but we're facing with some difficulty around 
installing stuff on our box. We have been facing a lot of politics and it's 
ended up we cannot install anything on our box and we don't have root access. 
Is there anyway we can install Chef without root access, no matter how ugly 
it will be? We're given a CentOS 5.8 VM.

We understand that Chef has to be installed on /opt/chef which we don't have 
access to. Can we recompile chef to change that path?

Best.