I for the life of me cannot figure out the issue. journalctl -xe says
Failed to start OpenBSD Secure Shell service
Unit ssh.service failed
ssh.service: Unit entered failed state.
ssh.service: Failed with result 'start-l'
also it says no such file or directory for bin/sshd
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Issue seemed to be with ownership of the file.
Solution
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2406453
Hi
Try this at the shell to see if the config has any error(s):
Cheers