Normal file permissions are enough to do what you want.
Add both users to a group of your choosing. Make a new group if you want using groupadd.
User one does this:
The 'chmod' is probably optional, group-read may be set by default anyway.
User two will be able to read file1, file2, file3 without being root.
It's also possible to make a directory whose files will belong to a particular group by default:
As long as they don't create subdirectories inside it, files in it should always be accessible to anyone in groupname.
This is why they're so heavily discouraging using root: It isn't just dangerous and insecure, it's generally unnecessary. The only thing of all of that which needed elevated access was groupadd, which only needs running once.
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