verdaccio/wiki/recipes/protect-your-dependencies.md

Protecting packages

verdaccio allows you protect publish, to achieve that you will need to set up correctly your packages acces.

Package configuration

Let's see for instance the following set up. You have a set of dependencies what are prefixed with my-company-* and you need to protect them from anonymous or another logged user without right credentials.

  'my-company-*':
    access: admin teamA teamB teamC 
    publish: admin teamA
    proxy: npmjs

With this configuration, basically we allow to groups admin and teamA to * publish* and teamA teamB teamC access to such dependencies.

Use case: teamD try to access the dependency

So, if I am logged as teamD. I shouldn't be able to access all dependencies that match with my-company-* pattern.

➜ npm whoami                                  
teamD

I won't have access to such dependencies and also won't be visible via web for user teamD. If I try to access the following will happen.

➜ npm install my-company-core
npm ERR! code E403
npm ERR! 403 Forbidden: webpack-1@latest

or with yarn

➜ yarn add my-company-core
yarn add v0.24.6
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
error An unexpected error occurred: "http://localhost:5555/webpack-1: unregistered users are not allowed to access package my-company-core".