PowerShell / PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH

subsystem executable paths with "spaces" do not work

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Since Mar 31, 2020.

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Description

"OpenSSH for Windows" version
v0.0.16.0

Server OperatingSystem
Windows 7 Enterprise

Client OperatingSystem
UBuntu 16.04 / 16.10

What is failing
Execution of powershell as subsystem.

Actual output
I configured the sshd_config file as follows:
Subsystem powershell C:\Program Files\PowerShell\6.0.0.17\powershell.exe -sshs -NoLogo -NoProfile

The sshd log file states following message regarding to the execution of the subsystem:
2956 11:50:35:760 debug1: Executing command: C:\\Program Files\\OpenSSH\\C:\\Program Files\\PowerShell\\6.0.0.17\\powershell.exe -sshs -NoLogo -NoProfile

This fails and the connection crushes. So I set the path in the sshd_config relatively to the OpenSSH folder:
Subsystem powershell ..\PowerShell\6.0.0.17\powershell.exe -sshs -NoLogo -NoProfile
which fixed the issue.

Is it only me experiencing this or had any of you the same issue?

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