Unable to start sshd service in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 - "Missing privilege separation directory" or "it must be owned by root and not group or world-writable"
Issue
- Unable to start sshd service due to the below error messages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 :
- Missing privilege separation directory.
- /usr/share/empty.sshd must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- OpenSSH
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