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@albertzaharovits albertzaharovits commented Feb 13, 2019

The snapshot_user role was added in elastic/elasticsearch#35820 , this is the docs part. It also adds a doc snippet on the create_snapshot cluster privilege.

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Grants the necessary privileges to create snapshots of **all** the indices and
to view their metadata. This role enables users to view the configuration of
existing snapshot repositories and of the snapshot details. It does not enable
users to change or restore any of them. It also does not enable users to change
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The "them" is a little unclear here. Is it just "snapshots", "snapshot repositories", or "snapshot details"?

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All of them. This is poorly worded. I tried to say a lot in a few words and it did not turn up well.
I have pushed 6ba2c46

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Lisa suggested I open a PR for the kibana's side of cluster privileges and I followed suit elastic/kibana#31086 . Thank you Lisa!

@albertzaharovits albertzaharovits merged commit 7a378d1 into elastic:master Feb 19, 2019
@albertzaharovits albertzaharovits deleted the add-snapshot-user-builtin-role branch February 19, 2019 08:34
albertzaharovits added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 19, 2019
This is the docs part for the `snapshot_user` role and the `create_snapshot`
cluster privilege which were added in
[elastic/elasticsearch#35820](elastic/elasticsearch#35820)
albertzaharovits added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 19, 2019
This is the docs part for the `snapshot_user` role and the `create_snapshot`
cluster privilege which were added in
[elastic/elasticsearch#35820](elastic/elasticsearch#35820)
albertzaharovits added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 19, 2019
This is the docs part for the `snapshot_user` role and the `create_snapshot`
cluster privilege which were added in
[elastic/elasticsearch#35820](elastic/elasticsearch#35820)
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