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It's not obvious to me that credentials are ephemeral data rather than part of the configuration.

• jessaustin 8y ago
  From TFA: npm has revoked all access tokens issued before 2018-07-12 12:30 UTC. If credentials were configuration, we'd be screwed now, because the data we have stored is no longer valid. Fortunately, all we have to do is this: $ npm adduser Now the data we have stored is correct again! This is textbook ephemeral data. We can cache it, and that might save some time, but it really doesn't matter. We could flush cache every half hour and it wouldn't hurt a thing. Another way to see that credentials aren't configuration is what I suggested above: we would never want to back up or publish them, so they are different from and belong in a different place than configuration that we definitely want to back up and often want to publish. [EDIT:] If one had only considered this from a "12-factor" perspective, in which creds and config are both called config and are both stored in envvars, I could understand the confusion. Note however that the config we're talking about for npm is e.g. "init-author-email". That doesn't change from environment to environment, so it's more like what 12-factor would call code...