1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/regress/test-exec.sh b/regress/test-exec.sh
index 0680eaa94..599b8d9ba 100644
--- a/regress/test-exec.sh
+++ b/regress/test-exec.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#       $OpenBSD: test-exec.sh,v 1.41 2013/05/17 00:37:40 dtucker Exp $
+#       $OpenBSD: test-exec.sh,v 1.42 2013/05/17 04:29:14 dtucker Exp $
 #       Placed in the Public Domain.
 
 #SUDO=sudo
@@ -155,10 +155,6 @@ fi
 >$TEST_SSHD_LOGFILE
 >$TEST_REGRESS_LOGFILE
 
-# Some data for test copies
-DATA=$OBJ/testdata
-cat $SSHD${EXEEXT} $SSHD${EXEEXT} $SSHD${EXEEXT} $SSHD${EXEEXT} >$DATA
-
 # Create wrapper ssh with logging.  We can't just specify "SSH=ssh -E..."
 # because sftp and scp don't handle spaces in arguments.
 SSHLOGWRAP=$OBJ/ssh-log-wrapper.sh
@@ -168,6 +164,15 @@ echo "exec ${SSH} -E${TEST_SSH_LOGFILE} "'"$@"' >>$SSHLOGWRAP
 chmod a+rx $OBJ/ssh-log-wrapper.sh
 SSH="$SSHLOGWRAP"
 
+# Some test data.  We make a copy because some tests will overwrite it.
+# The tests may assume that $DATA exists and is writable and $COPY does
+# not exist.
+DATA=$OBJ/data
+cat $SSHD $SSHD $SSHD $SSHD >${DATA}
+chmod u+w ${DATA}
+COPY=$OBJ/copy
+rm -f ${COPY}
+
 # these should be used in tests
 export SSH SSHD SSHAGENT SSHADD SSHKEYGEN SSHKEYSCAN SFTP SFTPSERVER SCP
 #echo $SSH $SSHD $SSHAGENT $SSHADD $SSHKEYGEN $SSHKEYSCAN $SFTP $SFTPSERVER $SCP