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Correct visibility documentation for private project snippets

Nick Malcolm requested to merge nmalcolm-master-patch-44394 into master

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There are Snippets and Project Snippets. Snippets can be made private and visible only to the author. Project Snippets can be made private and are visible to any project member.

On the other hand, if Project Snippets are indeed supposed to be private to the author only, then this is a security bug. @ericschurter or @mhenriksen can you clarify please?

E.g. here is me logged in as a team member able to see private snippets for gitlab-org/gitlab:

Screen_Shot_2022-03-15_at_2.24.35_PM

Hovering over the padlock on a private project snippet shows a tooltip indicating that project members are allowed to see project snippets:

Screen_Shot_2022-03-15_at_2.30.13_PM

Here is my GitLab membership in case it makes a difference Screen_Shot_2022-03-15_at_2.28.32_PM

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Edited by Nick Malcolm

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