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title: npm-owner
section: 1
description: Manage package owners
---
### Synopsis
```bash
npm owner add
npm owner rm
npm owner ls
alias: author
```
### Description
Manage ownership of published packages.
* ls: List all the users who have access to modify a package and push new versions.
Handy when you need to know who to bug for help.
* add: Add a new user as a maintainer of a package.
This user is enabled to modify metadata, publish new versions, and add other owners.
* rm: Remove a user from the package owner list.
This immediately revokes their privileges.
Note that there is only one level of access.
Either you can modify a package, or you can't.
Future versions may contain more fine-grained access levels, but that is not implemented at this time.
If you have two-factor authentication enabled with `auth-and-writes` (see [`npm-profile`](/commands/npm-profile)) then you'll need to go through a second factor flow when changing ownership or include an otp on the command line with `--otp`.
### Configuration
#### `registry`
* Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
* Type: URL
The base URL of the npm registry.
#### `otp`
* Default: null
* Type: null or String
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.
#### `workspace`
* Default:
* Type: String (can be set multiple times)
Enable running a command in the context of the configured workspaces of the
current project while filtering by running only the workspaces defined by
this configuration option.
Valid values for the `workspace` config are either:
* Workspace names
* Path to a workspace directory
* Path to a parent workspace directory (will result in selecting all
workspaces within that folder)
When set for the `npm init` command, this may be set to the folder of a
workspace which does not yet exist, to create the folder and set it up as a
brand new workspace within the project.
This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.
#### `workspaces`
* Default: null
* Type: null or Boolean
Set to true to run the command in the context of **all** configured
workspaces.
Explicitly setting this to false will cause commands like `install` to
ignore workspaces altogether. When not set explicitly:
- Commands that operate on the `node_modules` tree (install, update, etc.)
will link workspaces into the `node_modules` folder. - Commands that do
other things (test, exec, publish, etc.) will operate on the root project,
_unless_ one or more workspaces are specified in the `workspace` config.
This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.
### See Also
* [package spec](/using-npm/package-spec)
* [npm profile](/commands/npm-profile)
* [npm publish](/commands/npm-publish)
* [npm registry](/using-npm/registry)
* [npm adduser](/commands/npm-adduser)