The authentification is tied to the auth [plugin](plugins.md) you are using. The package restrictions also is handled by the [Package Access](packages.md).
The client authentification is handled by `npm` client itself. Once you login to the application:
```bash
npm adduser --registry http://localhost:4873
```
A token is generated in the `npm` configuration file hosted in your user home folder. For more information about `.npmrc` read the [official documentation](https://docs.npmjs.com/files/npmrc).
`verdaccio`allows you to enable anonymous publish, to achieve that you will need to set up correctly your [packages acces](packages.md).
Eg:
```yaml
'my-company-*':
access: $anonymous
publish: $anonymous
proxy: npmjs
```
As is described [on issue #212](https://github.com/verdaccio/verdaccio/issues/212#issuecomment-308578500) until `npm@5.3.0` and all minor releases **won't allow you publish without a token**. However `yarn` has not such limitation.
## Default htpasswd
In order to simplify the setup, `verdaccio` use a build-in plugin based on `htpasswd`.
```yaml
auth:
htpasswd:
file: ./htpasswd
# Maximum amount of users allowed to register, defaults to "+inf".
# You can set this to -1 to disable registration.
#max_users: 1000
```
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