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add ILM privilege descriptions #172

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14 changes: 13 additions & 1 deletion docs/en/stack/security/authorization/privileges.asciidoc
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Expand Up @@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ patterns. It also includes the authority to grant the privileges necessary to
manage follower indices and auto-follow patterns. This privilege is necessary
only on clusters that contain follower indices.

`manage_ilm`::
All {Ilm} operations related to managing policies

`manage_index_templates`::
All operations on index templates.

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -78,6 +81,10 @@ metadata for leader indices in the cluster. It also includes the authority to
check whether users have the appropriate privileges to follow leader indices.
This privilege is necessary only on clusters that contain leader indices.

`read_ilm`::
All read only {Ilm} operations, such as getting policies and checking the
status of {Ilm}

`transport_client`::
All privileges necessary for a transport client to connect. Required by the remote
cluster to enable <<cross-cluster-configuring,Cross Cluster Search>>.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -125,6 +132,11 @@ All actions that are required to manage the lifecycle of a follower index, which
includes creating a follower index, closing it, and converting it to a regular
index. This privilege is necessary only on clusters that contain follower indices.

`manage_ilm`::
All {Ilm} operations relating to managing the execution of policies of an index
This includes operations like retrying policies, and removing a policy
from an index.

`monitor`::
All actions that are required for monitoring (recovery, segments info, index
stats and status).
Expand All @@ -139,7 +151,7 @@ Read only access to the search action from a <<cross-cluster-configuring,remote

`view_index_metadata`::
Read-only access to index metadata (aliases, aliases exists, get index, exists, field mappings,
mappings, search shards, type exists, validate, warmers, settings). This
mappings, search shards, type exists, validate, warmers, settings, ilm). This
privilege is primarily available for use by {kib} users.

`write`::
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