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Turtles, Clams, and Cyber Threat Actors: Shell Usage
The Socket Threat Research Team uncovers how threat actors weaponize shell techniques across npm, PyPI, and Go ecosystems to maintain persistence and exfiltrate data.
**This package's functionality has been reintegrated directly into npm. There have been many changes made to npm's configuration since the last version of this package was published. It should not be considered a source of truth for npm configuration any longer, and npm itself is the best tool to use to manage its configuration.
If you are writing a new Node.js program, and want configuration functionality similar to what npm has, but for your own thing, then I'd recommend using rc, which is probably what you want.
var npmconf = require('npmconf')
// pass in the cli options that you read from the cli
// or whatever top-level configs you want npm to use for now.
npmconf.load({some:'configs'}, function (er, conf) {
// do stuff with conf
conf.get('some', 'cli') // 'configs'
conf.get('username') // 'joebobwhatevers'
conf.set('foo', 'bar', 'user')
conf.save('user', function (er) {
// foo = bar is now saved to ~/.npmrc or wherever
})
})
FAQs
The config module for npm circa npm@1 and npm@2
The npm package npmconf receives a total of 49,950 weekly downloads. As such, npmconf popularity was classified as popular.
We found that npmconf demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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