Root Level Access

[Yogesh Gaikwad]

Hello,
I want to add a user who should have a write permission acroos the system. But he shouldnt have write or excecute permission. How to do the same?
I think we can set umask value to other as 400 so that the newly created user will get read access. Is this ans correct? Wil it impact current user permissions?

[Avinash20]

You question seems to be confusing

"I want to add a user who should have a write permission acroos the system. But he shouldnt have write or excecute permission"

Function of umask is when the particular user creates a directory(777 - umask) or file(666 - umask) it will be created with the particular permissions

[Mark McDonald_2]

umask is not the correct tool

umask 400 - will mean that the user creates files with some strange permissions eg:

baspb326:/home/mmcdonal# umask 400
baspb326:/home/mmcdonal# touch crap2
baspb326:/home/mmcdonal# ls -l crap2
--w-rw-rw- 1 mmcdonal other 0 Apr 1 10:24 crap2

perhaps you should look at chroot and link the files that you want him to be able to read (I assume that's what you meant)

[Yogesh Gaikwad]

I think i have not put my question properly.
publishing query again