One of the most useful, important, and enabling aspects of the npm CLI is that its highly configurable. It's literally something we interact with multiple times on a daily basis, and it's one of the pieces of the ecosystem that's led to the success of Node.js. Some npm registries (for example, npmE) might support alternative auth strategies besides classic username/password entry in legacy npm.For Node.js developers, npm is an everyday tool. What authentication strategy to use with adduser/ login. Registry-specific configuration of always-auth takes precedence over any global configuration. See always-auth in npm-config for more details on always-auth.

This setting may be necessary for use with private registries where metadata and package tarballs are stored on hosts with different hostnames. This will ensure that all requests to that registry (including for tarballs) include an authorization header. Can be used with -registry and / or -scope, e.g. If specified, save configuration indicating that all requests to the given registry should include authorization information. This will set a registry for the given scope and login or create a user for that registry at the same time. If specified, the user and login credentials given will be associated with the specified scope. scope defaults to the scope of the project directory you're currently in, if any. If scope is also specified, this registry will only be used for packages with that scope. The base URL of the npm package registry. Npm login is an alias to adduser and behaves exactly the same way. When authenticating on a new machine, the username, password and email address must all match with your existing record. You may use this command multiple times with the same user account to authorize on a new machine. The username, password, and email are read in from prompts. If no registry is specified, the default registry will be used (see npm-config). Synopsis npm adduser ] Ĭreate or verify a user named in the specified registry, and save the credentials to the.

Npm config set registry to default