--- a/sshd.8
+++ b/sshd.8
@@ -1007,8 +1007,7 @@
 directory used by
 .Nm
 during privilege separation in the pre-authentication phase.
-The directory should not contain any files and must be owned by root
-and not group or world-writable.
+The directory should not contain any files.
 .Pp
 .It Pa /var/run/sshd.pid
 Contains the process ID of the
