Sync 21.1, 21.2 with large changes made to 20.2

[ericharmeling]

Eric Harmeling (ericharmeling) commented:

A lot of changes were made to v20.2 authentication docs here: #9913. But it doesn't look like these changes were copied over to 21.1 ahead of 21.1 itself being duplicated for the 21.2 release.

(this was noticed when updating the CREATE ROLE/ALTER ROLE pages here: #11675 (comment))

So, all of the relevant changes in #9913 should be incorporated into 21.1 and 21.2, or that work will be lost as we phase into new versions over the upcoming releases. We should make these changes ASAP though, or it will be harder to do as the affected files change more and more in 21.1/21.2.

There are a number of ways to go about this, but, assuming all changes are relevant to 20.2/21.1/21.2, probably the easiest would be to create a new branch, check out the last 9913 commit, copy all of the v20.2 files changed in the PR to the 21.1/21.2 files, commit the changes as "Copied auth changes to 21.1, 21.2", and then rebase on master and resolve the differences commit-by-commit.

Jira Issue: DOC-1278

[rafiss]

I'm happy to help review anything here.

[jseldess]

@ericharmeling, I'm not sure where this landed before Mike went on leave. Do you think you might have time to work on this?

[ericharmeling]

I'm not sure where this landed before Mike went on leave. Do you think you might have time to work on this?

We briefly chatted about it offline. I'm not sure that I will have bandwidth this release, but we can throw it on my backlog while we look for a new security writer.

[jseldess]

Thanks, @ericharmeling.