npm-adduser - Add a registry user account Synopsis npm adduser aliases: login, add-user Note: This command is unaware of workspaces. Description Create or verify a user named <username> in the specified registry, and save the credentials to the .npmrc file. If no registry is specified, the default registry will be used (see npm help config). The username, password, and email are read in from prompts. To reset your password, go to https://www.npmjs.com/forgot To change your email address, go to https://www.npmjs.com/email-edit You may use this command multiple times with the same user account to authorize on a new machine. When authenticating on a new machine, the username, password and email address must all match with your existing record. npm login is an alias to adduser and behaves exactly the same way. Configuration registry o Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/" o Type: URL The base URL of the npm registry. scope o Default: the scope of the current project, if any, or "" o Type: String Associate an operation with a scope for a scoped registry. Useful when logging in to or out of a private registry: # log in, linking the scope to the custom registry npm login --scope=@mycorp --registry=https://registry.mycorp.com # log out, removing the link and the auth token npm logout --scope=@mycorp This will cause @mycorp to be mapped to the registry for future instal- lation of packages specified according to the pattern @mycorp/package. This will also cause npm init to create a scoped package. # accept all defaults, and create a package named "@foo/whatever", # instead of just named "whatever" npm init --scope=@foo --yes See Also o npm help registry o npm help config o npm help npmrc o npm help owner o npm help whoami o npm help token o npm help profile
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NAME
npm-adduser - Add a registry user account
Synopsis
npm adduser
aliases: login, add-user
Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.
Description
Create or verify a user named <username> in the specified registry, and
save the credentials to the .npmrc file. If no registry is specified,
the default registry will be used (see npm help config).
The username, password, and email are read in from prompts.
To reset your password, go to https://www.npmjs.com/forgot
To change your email address, go to https://www.npmjs.com/email-edit
You may use this command multiple times with the same user account to
authorize on a new machine. When authenticating on a new machine, the
username, password and email address must all match with your existing
record.
npm login is an alias to adduser and behaves exactly the same way.
Configuration
registry
o Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
o Type: URL
The base URL of the npm registry.
scope
o Default: the scope of the current project, if any, or ""
o Type: String
Associate an operation with a scope for a scoped registry.
Useful when logging in to or out of a private registry:
# log in, linking the scope to the custom registry
npm login --scope=@mycorp --registry=https://registry.mycorp.com
# log out, removing the link and the auth token
npm logout --scope=@mycorp
This will cause @mycorp to be mapped to the registry for future instal-
lation of packages specified according to the pattern @mycorp/package.
This will also cause npm init to create a scoped package.
# accept all defaults, and create a package named "@foo/whatever",
# instead of just named "whatever"
npm init --scope=@foo --yes
See Also
o npm help registry
o npm help config
o npm help npmrc
o npm help owner
o npm help whoami
o npm help token
o npm help profile
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | runtime/nodejs/nodejs-18 |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Pass-thru volatile |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://github.com/nodejs/node/ar-
chive/v18.1.0.zip.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://github.com/nodejs/node.
April 2022 NPM-ADDUSER(1)