Installing private package from Github Package registry using Yarn fails with not authorized

Question

This question is related to these. But none of the solutions worked for me.

• Yarn can't find private Github npm registry
• Installing private package fro

Answer 1

I am adding an answer here because after a day of trying different variations of the solutions here and elsewhere, I found that my issue was something else.

My issue was that, while npm is not case sensitive with regards to package names, yarn is when it comes to authentication!