How to configure a user group for a package access ?

[hiyangguo]

Hi,In the document ,I didn't found how to create a user group control access.Now my configuration is like this

packages:
  '@hypers/*':
    access: user-a user-b user-c
    publish: user-a user-b user-c

I want to config it like this

$user-group: user-a user-b user-c
packages:
  '@hypers/*':
    access: $user-group
    publish:  $user-group

What should I do?

[juanpicado]

It's not possible in that way, currently, user === group. So, you must define all users are allowed in each section (access, publish).

[hiyangguo]

@juanpicado Thank you answer very much.So, will you add this feature in the future?

[juanpicado]

We are open to improvements 👍 of course.

$user-group: user-a user-b user-c
packages:
  '@hypers/*':
    access: $user-group
    publish:  $user-group

I got your point here, but I think a real implementation (eg: config) might look a bit different due to the current design. I'll be happy to support to anyone that PR something like that.

[chengjianhua]

As more and more options we want to configure, whether to consider supporting config.js rather than config.yaml?

Define variables in .js is easier than .yaml. @juanpicado

[juanpicado]

@chengjianhua Yes why not 🤓 , even I thought to be able to read JSON format as the second option. As you can see here https://github.com/verdaccio/verdaccio/blob/master/src/lib/cli.js#L51 in the early stage we convert o JS object anyway. How to achieve format detection, that would be an open question.

But, yaml must remain, for backward compatibility reasons.

[chengjianhua]

@juanpicado Keep .yaml format is ok. There are some choices to resolve configuration file may have multiple formats. For example, widely used cosmiconfig, or not very well known joycon. Or write the search logic in our way.

[juanpicado]

cosmiconfig seems kinda nice, I'll read more about it 👍

[juanpicado]

FYI guys https://github.com/btshj-snail/snail-verdaccio-group

Please support him, that's a good one.