verdaccio/docs/packages.md

id	title
packages	Package Access

It's a series of contraints that allow or restrict access to the local storage based in specific criteria.

The security constraints remain on the shoulders of the plugin being used, by default verdaccio uses the htpasswd plugin. If you use a different plugin the behaviour might be different. The default plugin does not handle allow_access and allow_publish by itself, it uses an internal fallback in case the plugin is not ready for it.

For more information about permissions visit the authentification section in the wiki.

Usage

packages:
  # scoped packages
  '@scope/*':
    access: $all
    publish: $all
    proxy: server2

  'private-*':
    access: $all
    publish: $all
    proxy: uplink1

  '**':
    # allow all users (including non-authenticated users) to read and
    # publish all packages
    access: $all
    publish: $all
    proxy: uplink2

if none is specified, the default one remains

packages:
  '**':
    access: $all
    publish: $authenticated

The list of valid groups according the default plugins are

'$all', '$anonymous', '@all', '@anonymous', 'all', 'undefined', 'anonymous'

All users recieve all those set of permissions independently of is anonymous or not plus the groups provided by the plugin, in case of htpasswd return the username as a group. For instance, if you are logged as npmUser the list of groups will be.

// groups without '$' are going to be deprecated eventually
'$all', '$anonymous', '@all', '@anonymous', 'all', 'undefined', 'anonymous', 'npmUser'

If you want to protect specific set packages under your group, you need to do something like this. Let's use a Regex that covers all prefixed npmuser- packages. We recomend using a prefix for your packages, in that way it will be easier to protect them.

packages:
  'npmuser-*':
    access: npmuser
    publish: npmuser

Restart verdaccio and in your console try to install npmuser-core.

$ npm install npmuser-core
npm install npmuser-core
npm ERR! code E403
npm ERR! 403 Forbidden: npmuser-core@latest

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/user/.npm/_logs/2017-07-02T12_20_14_834Z-debug.log

You can change the existing behaviour using a different plugin authentication. verdaccio just checks whether the user that tried to access or publish a specific package belongs to the right group.

Set multiple groups

Defining multiple access groups is fairly easy, just define them with a white space between them.

  'company-*':
    access: admin internal
    publish: admin
    proxy: server1
  'supersecret-*':
    access: secret super-secret-area ultra-secret-area
    publish: secret ultra-secret-area
    proxy: server1

Blocking access to set of packages

If you want to block the acccess/publish to a specific group of packages. Just do not define access and publish.

packages:
  'old-*':
  '**':
    access: $all
    publish: $authenticated

Blocking proxying a set of specific packages

You might want to block one or several packages from fetching from remote repositories., but, at the same time, allow others to access different uplinks.

Let's see the following example:

packages:
  'jquery':
    access: $all
    publish: $all
  'my-company-*':
    access: $all
    publish: $authenticated
  '@my-local-scope/*':
    access: $all
    publish: $authenticated
  '**':
    access: $all
    publish: $authenticated
    proxy: npmjs

Let's describe what we want with the above example:

• I want to host my own jquery dependency but I need to avoid proxying it.
• I want all dependencies that match with my-company-* but I need to avoid proxying them.
• I want all dependencies that are in the my-local-scope scope but I need to avoid proxying them.
• I want proxying for all the rest of the dependencies.

Be aware that the order of your packages definitions is important and always use double wilcard. Because if you do not include it verdaccio will include it for you and the way that your dependencies are resolved will be affected.

Configuration

You can define mutiple packages and each of them must have an unique Regex. The syntax is based on minimatch glob expressions.

Property	Type	Required	Example	Support	Description
access	string	No	$all	all	define groups allowed to access the package
publish	string	No	$authenticated	all	define groups allowed to publish
proxy	string	No	npmjs	all	limit look ups for specific uplink
storage	boolean	No	[true,false]	all	TODO

We higlight that we recommend to not use allow_access/allow_publish and proxy_access anymore, those are deprecated and will soon be removed, please use the short version of each of those (access/publish/proxy).