npm install gives unauthorized name or password is incorrect error

Question

When I try to install tap using

npm install tap

I get the following error:

npm ERR! Error: unauthorized Name or password is inc         


        

Answer 1

i tried

npm cache clean

but it didn't work. I didn't see .npmrc in my directory. I killed my bash shell (terminal on mac) and brought up a new one and that seemed to do the trick. Not sure if it was the bash refresh or the npm cache clean or a combination of the two.