title: npm-profile section: 1
npm profile enable-2fa [auth-only|auth-and-writes]
npm profile disable-2fa
npm profile get [<key>]
npm profile set <key> <value>
Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.
Change your profile information on the registry. Note that this command depends on the registry implementation, so third-party registries may not support this interface.
npm profile get [<property>]
: Display all of the properties of your
profile, or one or more specific properties. It looks like:
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| name | example |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| email | me@example.com (verified) |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| two factor auth | auth-and-writes |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| fullname | Example User |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| homepage | |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| freenode | |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| twitter | |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| github | |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| created | 2015-02-26T01:38:35.892Z |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| updated | 2017-10-02T21:29:45.922Z |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
npm profile set <property> <value>
: Set the value of a profile
property. You can set the following properties this way: email, fullname,
homepage, freenode, twitter, github
npm profile set password
: Change your password. This is interactive,
you'll be prompted for your current password and a new password. You'll
also be prompted for an OTP if you have two-factor authentication
enabled.
npm profile enable-2fa [auth-and-writes|auth-only]
: Enables two-factor
authentication. Defaults to auth-and-writes
mode. Modes are:
auth-only
: Require an OTP when logging in or making changes to your
account's authentication. The OTP will be required on both the website
and the command line.auth-and-writes
: Requires an OTP at all the times auth-only
does,
and also requires one when publishing a module, setting the latest
dist-tag, or changing access via npm access
and npm owner
.npm profile disable-2fa
: Disables two-factor authentication.
Some of these commands may not be available on non npmjs.com registries.
registry
The base URL of the npm registry.
json
Whether or not to output JSON data, rather than the normal output.
npm pkg set
it enables parsing set values with JSON.parse() before
saving them to your package.json
.Not supported by all npm commands.
parseable
Output parseable results from commands that write to standard output. For
npm search
, this will be tab-separated table format.
otp
This is a one-time password from a two-factor authenticator. It's needed
when publishing or changing package permissions with npm access
.
If not set, and a registry response fails with a challenge for a one-time password, npm will prompt on the command line for one.