Bug - Cannot create Secret Permissions due to error - Principal user is not a member of the project
## Screenshot ![Screenshot_2026-02-13_at_14.03.19](/uploads/e6791ec76171520b9f7d2fea2de5fd43/Screenshot_2026-02-13_at_14.03.19.png){width=900 height=227} ## Summary - See original [thread here](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/589820#note_3081075601) - Cannot assign permissions to the owner of a project - Go to staging group - https://staging.gitlab.com/gitlab-secrets-manager-group/ - Create a project and enable Secrets Manager for the project - Go to permissions section and try to add a permission to yourself (owner of the project) - You can see the error mentioned above - Need to test more for projects in user namespace as well
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