/var/empty/sshd must be owned by root and not group or world-writable

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Issue

I am getting an error in the console while trying to restart sshd service as:

/var/empty/sshd must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7

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