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title: npm-owner
section: 1
description: Manage package owners
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### Synopsis

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### 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

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### 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)