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read-only access

n. (context computing English) A permission to access files or directory where the user is only allowed to read, not make changes.

Usage examples of "read-only access".

In the case of a Web server, you want to give read-only access to remote users in any user’.

And once I'm in, I'll have read-only access to all of the city's public facilities: all the information, all the entertainment, all the shared environments.