I have a large number of clients that all need to upload large files to our server. Once the files are uploaded, they will be moved manually to a different location on the server. In the meantime, each client's files should only be visible to them and not by other clients.
I'm really not keen on the idea of setting up hundreds of FTP accounts (I realize the account creation process can be automated, but it seems like an overly-complicated and messy solution for my needs). Is there a way to simply allow write access but not read access to a single FTP directory?
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FTP is old, creaky, insecure, and messy. I'd avoid it or migrate away from it if at all possible. That said, I know sometimes business needs make this impossible.
If you give a user write, but not read, to a directory, then should be able to transfer files to that directory without reading what's actually there.