Read only Permission

[solarisadmin]

How can I create a user with read only permission on the system except his/her home directory.

 

[harris79]

First create a new group
Then create your new user and put them into the new group.
Finally set the world permissions on all your files to read only recursively.

Of course this will stop every user from modifing files belonging to another group.

Steve

 

[solarisadmin]

How can I give read only permission to the user without affecting other permissions?

 

[harris79]

I don't know that you can, it's the files that have permissions.

Steve

 

[Annihilannic]

You could perhaps export (share) all filesystems read-only via NFS to another less critical system? Annihilannic.