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Clarify SAML and LDAP for Authentication to Provision ownership transition

Hannah Sutor requested to merge hsutor-master-patch-8d51 into master

Why is this change being made?

Previously, we moved certain features that Authentication previously owned to the Category:User Management so that they would become owned by groupprovision as part of the relignment.

However, there is still some confusion on ownership when it comes to LDAP and SAML features, since there is joint ownership:

This MR aims to make this distinction more clear

Related to Govern::Authentication - Category and Feature U... (Product#13607) and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/govern/authentication/discussion/-/issues/134+ and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/sec-sub-department/meta/-/issues/1+

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