[DOCS] unable to set scoped credentials via environment variable

[everett1992]

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Description of Problem

npm prints a warning whenever _auth is used without scoping the credential and a custom registry is configured.

$ NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY=http://localhost:8080 NPM_CONFIG__AUTH=TOKEN npm -v

npm WARN config `_auth`, `_authToken`, `username` and `_password` must be scoped to a registry. see `npm help npmrc` for more information.
8.19.1

I can't find any way to set the scoped _auth as an environment variable. NPM_CONFIG_//localhost:8080/:_AUTH=TOKEN does not work.

My use case involves short-lived project specific credentials. I don't want to add them to global or user config because the credentials are only valid for a specific project and projects could be built in parallel, I don't want to add them to the project .npmrc because that is checked in to source control.

Potential Solution

• Define (or document if it exists) a pattern for scoped config environment variables
• Define (or document if it exists) a pattern for scoped command line configuration
• Add an option to suppress this warning
• Add a project specific but not checked in config file location

Affected URL

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