No, well that depends on the permissions on the local and remote server.
If you have wrx on both machines for the directories involved, then you don't need root
access. You would use your login in place of 'root'. What I gave you there was the very
least in variables, code, and configuration for multiple machines.

See what you can come up with on your own. I'll be more than happy to post a bit more of
what I have and the logic behind it as needed.

MPH