openssh: Use the default privilege separation dir (/var/empty)
If running NixOS inside a container where the host's root-owned files and directories have been mapped to some other uid (like nobody), the ssh daemon fails to start, producing this error message: fatal: /nix/store/...-openssh-7.2p2/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. The reason for this is that when openssh is built, we explicitly set `--with-privsep-path=$out/empty`. This commit removes that flag which causes the default directory /var/empty to be used instead. Since NixOS' activation script correctly sets up that directory, the ssh daemon now also works within containers that have a non-root-owned nix store.
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