npm-adduser

Add a registry user account

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Synopsis

npm adduser [--registry=url] [--scope=@orgname] [--auth-type=legacy]

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 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

Default: https://registry.npmjs.org/

The base URL of the npm package registry. If scope is also specified, this registry will only be used for packages with that scope. scope defaults to the scope of the project directory you’re currently in, if any. See scope.

scope

Default: none

If specified, the user and login credentials given will be associated with the specified scope. See scope. You can use both at the same time, e.g.

npm adduser --registry=http://myregistry.example.com --scope=@myco

This will set a registry for the given scope and login or create a user for that registry at the same time.

auth-type

What authentication strategy to use with adduser/login. Some npm registries (for example, npmE) might support alternative auth strategies besides classic username/password entry in legacy npm.

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