npm publish is unauthorized

[david.osborne_4674]

Hello.

Despite following the instructions here, I get a 401 error when trying to publish an NPM package using an API key. Is this possible?

Kind regards,

David.

[rhessinger]

Hi @david-osborne_4674,

Are you able to pull successfully using npm and ProGet? Also, does your API Key have the Feed API right enabled or if you are impersonating a user, does that user have the ability to publish packages?

Also, when you set your NPM auth using:

[~]$ npm config set always-auth=true
[~]$ npm config set _auth={ENCODEDAPIKEY}

Are you base64 encoding your API Key using the format api:{APIKEY}. For example:

If my API key is FakeApiKey, I would want to base 64 encode api:FakeApiKey would be YXBpOkZha2VBcGlLZXk=. So the commands to run would be:

[~]$ npm config set always-auth=true
[~]$ npm config set _auth=YXBpOkZha2VBcGlLZXk=

Alternatively, you could use npm adduser to login. Here are some examples:

If you ran the command to make ProGet your default repo: npm adduser --always-auth
If you are using multiple repos: npm adduser --registry=http://progetrepo/feedname --always-auth
If you are using scoped repos: npm adduser --registry=http://progetrepo/feedname --scope=@inedo --always-auth

This way uses a username and password. If you want to use an API key, use API as the username as the API Key as the password.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
Rich