NP-LOGIN

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Updated: October 2025
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NAME

np-login- Login to a registry user account  

Synopsis

npm login

Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.  

Description

Verify a user 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). When you run npm login, the CLI automatically generates a legacy token of publish type. For more information, see About legacy tokens la/abou-acces-tokens#abou-legac-tokensra. When using legacy for your aut-type, the username and password, are read in from prompts. To reset your password, go to lahttps://www.npmjs.com/forgotra To change your email address, go to lahttps://www.npmjs.com/emai-editra 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.  

Configuration

 

registry

*

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

*

Type: URL

The base URL of the npm registry.  

scope

*

Default: the scope of the current project, if any, or ""

*

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 installation 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

 

aut-type

*

Default: "web"

*

Type: "legacy" or "web"

What authentication strategy to use with login. Note that if an otp config is given, this value will always be set to legacy.  

See Also

*

npm help registry

*

npm help config

*

npm help npmrc

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npm help owner

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npm help whoami

*

npm help token

*

npm help profile

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Index

NAME

Synopsis

Description

Configuration

registry

scope

auth-type

See Also