openssh bugs - Sep 2013 - [Bug 2150] New: Recursive upload expects target directory to already exist

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2150

            Bug ID: 2150
           Summary: Recursive upload expects target directory to already
                    exist
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: -current
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: sftp
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
          Reporter: imorgan at nas.nasa.gov

The "put -r" support in sftp(1) expects a directory with the same name
as teh source directory to exist on the server prior to the upload.
That
is contrary to the behaviour of "scp -r" and is thus unexpected. It is
also contrary to the behaviour of "get -r."

sftp> cd test
sftp> lcd /etc
sftp> ls
sftp> put -r sasl2
Uploading sasl2/ to /u1/imorgan/test/sasl2
Couldn't canonicalise: No such file or directory
Unable to canonicalise path "/u1/imorgan/test/sasl2"
sftp>
sftp> mkdir sasl2
sftp> put -r sasl2
Uploading sasl2/ to /u1/imorgan/test/sasl2
sasl2/libvirt.conf
100% 1161     1.1KB/s   00:00
sasl2/smtpd.conf
100%   49     0.1KB/s   00:00
sasl2/Sendmail.conf
100%   25     0.0KB/s   00:00
sftp>

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Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
*** Bug 2230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Ammon <i589kvp1hf at kraqer.e4ward.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Ammon <i589kvp1hf at kraqer.e4ward.com> ---
"put -r" is completely broken and will not recurse

sftp> put -r olds/* olds/
Uploading olds/2013/ to /nfs/bronfs/uwfs/dw00/d12/ammon0/olds/2013
Entering olds/2013/
Uploading olds/2014/ to /nfs/bronfs/uwfs/dw00/d12/ammon0/olds/2014
Entering olds/2014/
Uploading olds/2015/ to /nfs/bronfs/uwfs/dw00/d12/ammon0/olds/2015
Entering olds/2015/
Uploading olds/2016/ to /nfs/bronfs/uwfs/dw00/d12/ammon0/olds/2016
Entering olds/2016/

each of these directories has multiple entries but none were uploaded

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Ammon <i589kvp1hf at kraqer.e4ward.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Hardware|Other                       |amd64
                 OS|All                         |Linux
            Version|-current                    |6.9p1
            Summary|Recursive upload expects    |Recursive upload completely
                   |target directory to already |non-functional
                   |exist                       |

--- Comment #3 from Ammon <i589kvp1hf at kraqer.e4ward.com> ---
Version information:

$ apt-cache policy openssh-client
openssh-client:
  Installed: 1:6.9p1-2ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 1:6.9p1-2ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:6.9p1-2ubuntu0.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-updates/main
amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-security/main amd64
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:6.9p1-2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64
Packages

I will also be reporting this on launchpad.net

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Iain Morgan <imorgan at nas.nasa.gov> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Version|6.9p1                       |-current
           Hardware|amd64                       |All
                 OS|Linux                       |All
            Summary|Recursive upload completely |Recursive upload expects
                   |non-functional              |target directory to already
                   |                            |exist

--- Comment #4 from Iain Morgan <imorgan at nas.nasa.gov> ---
Restore bug to correct state.

This is a general, platform-independent issue that affects multiple
versions of OpenSSH, including -current. It doesn't seem appropriate to
me to alter this bug to imply that it is relevant to a specific
release,
operating system, or hardware.

Feel free to add supporting attachments, proposed fixes, relevant
comments on the issue, but please don't try to take over someone else's
but.

As to the claim of "completely non-functional" made in the egregious
change to the summary, it would have been appropriate to have included
some evidence of that as an attachment. In my experience, recursive
upload works -- provided that the target directory exists.

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--- Comment #5 from Ammon <i589kvp1hf at kraqer.e4ward.com> ---
Please forgive the various mistakes I made. In my defence, if the
information on this page was not meant to be edited by the public then
it should not be able to be edited by the public. I will not waste time
with reasoning or justifications.

In any case, the fact that "put -r /stuff/*" fails to recurse into
sub-directories is evident by the terminal output I submitted in
comment #2.

If you have not experienced this then I suspect that the issue is
separate: platform and/or version specific. In this case am I to
understand that I should submit a separate bug report?

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