[7.16] [ML] Retain built-in ML roles granting Kibana privileges (#80014) #80019
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The machine_learning_admin and machine_learning_user roles in Elasticsearch also grant access to the ML pages in Kibana. At one time it was intended that this should change in 8.0, so that ML privileges in Kibana would be completely separate. However, our thinking has now changed. An administrator cannot give a user the Elasticsearch backend roles and expect Kibana privileges alone to then stop that user from using ML - the user could just switch to curl or even Kibana dev console (which uses backend privileges rather than Kibana privileges). So it's clearer what is really being permitted if the backend roles continue to allow access to the ML UI as well as the ML backend endpoints. There's nothing the user can see in the ML UI that they couldn't find out by calling ML Elasticsearch endpoints directly and rendering the responses in a more graphical way.
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Backports the following commits to 7.16: