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Expand Up @@ -120,6 +120,12 @@ multiple data streams, indices, and aliases.
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[IMPORTANT]
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Granting privileges over an alias and hence granting privileges over all the indices that the alias points to is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Elasticsearch.
Instead define permissions exclusively on index names or index name patterns.
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[[roles-global-priv]]
==== Global privileges
The following describes the structure of the global privileges entry:
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