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

You might have _auth entry configured in the .npmrc config file ($HOME/.npmrc). Just delete the entry if you are using the public registry as it's not needed. If you're using a private npm registry you should check with your admin that that's the correct auth key for you to access the registry.

I would not recommend just deleting the whole file (.npmrc) as the file might contain important configurations for your npm to work correctly. i.e.: proxy config.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

npm cache verify is what you need

Answer 4

Removing package-lock.json and node_modules did the trick in my case.