SFTP client script broken after OpenSSH 2.5.1p1 to 2.5.2p2-1

[Davis, Ricardo C.]

Hello friends,

I have a script that uses the sftp client to transfer a file to another
server using PK authentication.  It was working until I upgraded from
OpenSSH 2.5.1p1 to 2.5.2p2-1 yesterday (on a RH Linux 6.2 system).  The sftp
command is:

sftp -o "IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa" \
   $PUSERNAME@$PSERVER >$TEMPFILE 2>&1 <<-!
	cd $PDIR
	put $DOC_ARCHIVE
	ls
	quit
	!

Now when I run the script in test mode where it logs into an account on the
same box the script appears to ignore the current directory set by the "cd"
command and will "put" the file in the home directory of PUSERNAME.  I
checked to make sure $PDIR was set and it is ... because when I do the "ls"
in sftp it lists the other files already present in the target subdirectory.
When I do a "set -x" before this command, here's what happens:

sftp> sftp> Uploading fci0406a.zip to fci0406a.zip
sftp> drwxrwxr-x    2 pusernam pusernam     4096 Mar 26 15:58 .
drwxr-x---    5 pusernam acctAdm      4096 Apr  6 11:30 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 pusernam pusernam    76280 Mar 23 17:20 fci0323a.zip
-rw-r--r--    1 pusernam pusernam    38151 Mar 23 17:20 fcd0323a.zip
-rw-r--r--    1 pusernam pusernam    38151 Mar 23 17:20 fcp0323a.zip
-rw-r--r--    1 pusernam pusernam    76280 Mar 26 17:39 fci0326a.zip
-rw-r--r--    1 pusernam pusernam    38151 Mar 26 17:39 fcd0326a.zip
-rw-r--r--    1 pusernam pusernam    38151 Mar 26 17:39 fcp0326a.zip

When I check out the home directory of this account I find the file was
transferred there.

Has this problem been identified (I didn't see it on the errata page) and
fixed?  How long before the next release with the fix?


-Ricardo
...going back to 2.5.1p1 :(

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