Can't use sftp commands from within directories with brackets in the name

[Adam Buchbinder]

Over sftp, I can navigate into directories with brackets in the name, but I can't do anything once I'm there. The suggestions in bug 267980 don't fix this, because I can't escape the directory name when I'm not even writing it in the 'ls' command.

To replicate:

/tmp$ mkdir \[test\]
/tmp$ sftp localhost
Connecting to localhost...
sftp> cd /tmp
sftp> cd \[test\]
sftp> ls
Can't ls: "/tmp/[test]" not found
sftp> pwd
Remote working directory: /tmp/[test]

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 2 09:29:46 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: openssh-client 1:5.1p1-6ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: openssh
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

I can confirm this behavior.
Works with get (get /tmp/\[test\]/moo) and even with ls from outside the directory (ls /tmp/\[test\]). Just not when you cd to it.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fixed upstream in OpenSSH 5.6. Probably not for Maverick now, but it'll be in Natty.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package openssh - 1:5.6p1-1ubuntu1

---------------
openssh (1:5.6p1-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian experimental. Remaining changes:
    - Add support for registering ConsoleKit sessions on login.
    - Drop openssh-blacklist and openssh-blacklist-extra to Suggests; they
      take up a lot of CD space, and I suspect that rolling them out in
      security updates has covered most affected systems now.
    - Convert to Upstart. The init script is still here for the benefit of
      people running sshd in chroots.
    - Install apport hook.
    - Add ssh-import-id utility.

openssh (1:5.6p1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-5.6):
    - Added a ControlPersist option to ssh_config(5) that automatically
      starts a background ssh(1) multiplex master when connecting. This
      connection can stay alive indefinitely, or can be set to automatically
      close after a user-specified duration of inactivity (closes: #335697,
      #350898, #454787, #500573, #550262).
    - Support AuthorizedKeysFile, AuthorizedPrincipalsFile,
      HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly, and PermitTunnel in sshd_config(5)
      Match blocks (closes: #549858).
    - sftp(1): fix ls in working directories that contain globbing
      characters in their pathnames (LP: #530714).

openssh (1:5.5p1-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use an architecture wildcard for libselinux1-dev (closes: #591740).
  * debconf template translations:
    - Update Danish (thanks, Joe Hansen; closes: #592800).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:25:40 +0100