"Read-only" user account

Hi All,
Although the systems in question run Solaris 8, I am asking in this Solaris 10 forum because the way to implement what I am trying to do will most likely be the same on Solaris 8 as Solaris 10 (basic user, group, and permissions related functions have not changed much). There are also alot more posts and answers in this forum so I'm likely to receive a response more quickly.
My question is: I have been asked to create a "read-only" account for IBM to support some of the applications on a couple of our systems (app support has recently been outsourced to them). I don't really understand why they would be needing a "read-only" account as they wouldn't be able to do anything to resolve problems or install new versions etc., but anyway the question is there and they seem to be insisting on creating such an account. So what is involved with creating a so called "read-only" account? I have never been asked to create one of these before and I've been working with UNIX for quite some time.
I know one could do something like create a very basic user who is only a member of a new group I would create called e.g. "readonly" and then use things like "chmod" to set permissions so that all files on the system have no write or execute permissions for "other" users (e.g. -rwxrwxr--), or I can use restricted shell (e.g. rksh, rbash) etc. However, setting all files globally to no write and execute permissions for "other" can and probably would cause all sorts of problems, and I already gave them a restricted shell but this was not suitable for them as they are unable to change directory or browse other parts of the filesystem they need to check.
Please let me know how I can create one of these so-called "read-only" accounts.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
David.
Commonwealth Bank
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most normal users dont have the ability to write to most critical areas of the system by default. if you need more restrictions, deploy RBAC. you can create custom rights profile to limit what a certain role can do.
[http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4557/prbactm-1?a=view] solaris 10
[http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-7229/6j6q8svdf?l=en&a=view] solaris 8 (update 10/01)

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