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Enforcing npm publishing access on nodejs packages

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
authorization, security

Research direction

Start by reading the linked admin issue 998 and reviewing the npm publishing-access options shown in this issue. Determine whether requiring 2FA or disallowing tokens is feasible for the nodejs-foundation packages, and document the agreed policy and implementation path as the definition of done.

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Description

With granular tokens and OIDC migration in https://github.com/nodejs/admin/issues/998, we could now consider enforcing the rule to require 2fa on publishing, and even disallow tokens (including granular tokens and classic tokens) on packages hosted on https://www.npmjs.com/~nodejs-foundation.

The current available options are (this is a per-package setting):

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JavaScript
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202
Forks
183
Avg merge
13d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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