Bug#769388: 'PermitRootLogin without-password' in new installations breaks some use cases

[Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>]

> Concrete effects reported in this bug:
>
> * People who were used to the old configuration find the behaviour of new
>   installations of jessie confusing. A NEWS.Debian entry would not help here,
>   because new installations don't show NEWS.Debian; an entry in the
>   jessie release notes would be more appropriate.
>
> * Daniel Richard G. reports that this breaks his process for installing
>   Linux VM images, in which the image ends up with only a root user,
>   so there is no less-privileged user who can su to root.

Isn't this also a documentation issue?  A section could be added to
the release notes on how to preseed a user for this type of
installation use case?

Anyway, I think both problems can be solved with more information in
the release notes, so maybe reassign there?

Best wishes,
Mike