How can I make a user and give read only access?

Solution 1:

Something like:

Create the user
```
useradd readonlyuser
```
Enter its password if you want password auth, otherwise, setup SSH keys
```
passwd readonlyuser
```
Give Read and Execution permission to the directory Owner and all its sub-folders and files
```
chmod -R o+rx /var/www/html/websitenamehere/
```

Set the home directory of the user

usermod -d /var/www/html/websitenamehere/ readonlyuser

Or you could just make a tarball of the filesystem and mail it to the user with something like

tar cfvz websitenamehere.tar.gz /var/www/html/websitenamehere/