Shell Programming and Scripting

hi,

how to create user name with read only access.

i think first need to create group with read only access after that i need to create the user and assign it to that group. If it is correct, how to create user with read only access?

post more detail, you want him to restrict his own directory? or some other application?

Hi,

I want a user to be created with read only access for all the directories

there are no "read only" groups

there are files/folders that have read only permission for a group
if a group has no write access to any file on a system, you may call it read only group, but there's still the /tmp folder, where everyone has write rights


normally a new created user just has write rights to his home directory
if you change the home directory of the user to something like
chmod 555 /home/user , the user should be a read only user for the most directories on your system

but any time you change a directory to 777 for example, the user will be able to write to that directory, so be careful

perhaps you want to have a look at:

UNIX permissions

A near match to the requirement is to create the user in a unique group with notbody else in that group and also give them a Restricted Shell (rsh, rksh or whatever is appropriate for your environment).