Restructure IAM documentation (#112929)

Co-authored-by: Misi <mgyongyosi@users.noreply.github.com>
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Jack Baldry
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@@ -27,16 +27,16 @@ The most basic example for a dashboard for which there is no authentication. You
curl http://localhost:3000/api/search
```
Here's a cURL command that works for getting the home dashboard when you are running Grafana locally with [basic authentication](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/configure-security/configure-authentication/#basic-auth) enabled using the default admin credentials:
Here's a cURL command that works for getting the home dashboard when you are running Grafana locally with [basic authentication](/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/setup-grafana/configure-access/configure-authentication/#basic-auth) enabled using the default admin credentials:
```
curl http://admin:admin@localhost:3000/api/search
```
To pass a username and password with [HTTP basic authorization](/docs/grafana/latest/administration/roles-and-permissions/access-control/manage-rbac-roles/), encode them as base64.
To pass a username and password with [HTTP basic authorization](/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/roles-and-permissions/access-control/manage-rbac-roles/), encode them as base64.
You can't use authorization tokens in the request.
For example, to [list permissions associated with roles](/docs/grafana/latest/administration/roles-and-permissions/access-control/manage-rbac-roles/) given a username of `user` and password of `password`, use:
For example, to [list permissions associated with roles](/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/roles-and-permissions/access-control/manage-rbac-roles/) given a username of `user` and password of `password`, use:
```
curl --location '<grafana_url>/api/access-control/builtin-roles' --user 'user:password'
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ title: SSO Settings API
The API can be used to create, update, delete, get, and list SSO Settings for OAuth2 and SAML.
The settings managed by this API are stored in the database and override
[settings from other sources](../../../setup-grafana/configure-security/configure-authentication/)
[settings from other sources](../../../setup-grafana/configure-access/configure-authentication/)
(arguments, environment variables, settings file, etc).
Therefore, every time settings for a specific provider are removed or reset to the default settings at runtime,
the settings are inherited from the other sources in the reverse order of precedence