Unable to login to GitHub Package Registry

Question

I am trying to release npm package through GitHub Package Registry, I am following the documentation, When I try to login using the below command after entering the username and password(even though both are correct), I am getting below error always.

// Step 2: Authenticate
$ npm login --registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com/

Error log:

npm login --registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com/
Username: ***********
Password:
Email: (this IS public) *****************
npm ERR! code E401
npm ERR! Registry returned 401 for PUT on https://npm.pkg.github.com/-/user/org.couchdb.user:kgangadhar: Error authenticating user: Bad credentials

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\karth\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-10-31T05_35_05_829Z-debug.log

Does anyone know how to resolve it?

Minion3665 · Accepted Answer · 2021-11-22T10:11:05.033

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Do you have 2-factor authentication enabled on your GitHub account? If so, try creating a personal access token and using that instead of a password. Here are instructions to create a token.

Update: Github now requires personal access tokens for all accounts, regardless of if you have 2fa enabled

edited Nov 22 '21 at 10:11

answered Oct 31 '19 at 07:00

Minion3665

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what's the scopes needed by the registration token? tks – Erick M. Sprengel Aug 10 '20 at 02:33
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Select `repo` for the scope. – jefelewis Aug 13 '20 at 20:57

score 24 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '20 at 03:09

I ran into this same issue because I was attempting to use my Github password to login, when in fact you need to use a Github Personal Access Token as the password.

Username: YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME  
Password: YOUR_GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN  
Email: YOUR_EMAIL

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 18 '20 at 21:07

In this article refences the same command you are executing and the previous answer is correct. Just leaving here this to reinforce it:

Link to Github configuration page

There just Ctrl + F in search for npm login --registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com

Unable to login to GitHub Package Registry

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