npm E401 error Incorrect or missing password

Question

I am working with a Macos sonoma 14.5, node version is 22.2.0, npm 10.8.1.

The command "npm install" and "npm update" is always returning the following error :

npm error code E401 npm error Incorrect or missing password. npm error If you were trying to login, change your password, create an npm error authentication token or enable two-factor authentication then npm error that means you likely typed your password in incorrectly. npm error Please try again, or recover your password at: npm error https://www.npmjs.com/forgot npm error npm error If you were doing some other operation then your saved credentials are npm error probably out of date. To correct this please try logging in again with: npm error npm login npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /Users/basilyklelezard/.npm/_logs/2024-06-06T17_49_30_999Z-debug-0.log

I already tried to :

• "npm logout" and "npm login" with successful login

• make a npm token and store it in .npmrc "nano ~/.npmrc" "//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=your_generated_auth_token" "npm config list"

• delete node modules and package lock "rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json"

• clear cache "npm cache clean --force"

I am open to any comments ! thanks

Answer 1

For unknow reason the fontawesome package is causing this issue.

The command line indicates a npm authentication problem but removing fontawesome from package.json fix the problem.