If you try to authenticate against a Nexus server for NPM, you can get some strange errors.<\/p>\n
Here is how I tried logging in:<\/p>\n
\nnpm login\nUsername: gsieling\nPassword:\nEmail: (this IS public) gary@garysieling.com\n<\/pre>\nAnd this is what I get:<\/p>\n
\nnpm ERR! registry error parsing json\nnpm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601\nnpm ERR! argv \"c:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\nodejs\\\\node.exe\" \"c:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\nodejs\\\\node_modules\\\\npm\\\\bin\\\\npm-cli.js\" \"login\"\nnpm ERR! node v4.3.1\nnpm ERR! npm v2.14.12\n\nnpm ERR! Unexpected token <\nnpm ERR! \nnpm ERR! \nnpm ERR! 400 - Store operations are only valid for package roots, path: \/-\/user\/org.couchdb.user:gsieling<\/title>\nnpm ERR! <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\/>\nnpm ERR!\nnpm ERR! <link rel=\"icon\" type=\"image\/png\" href=\"http:\/\/garysieling.com:8081\/nexus\/favicon.png\">\nnpm ERR! <!--[if IE]>\nnpm ERR! <link rel=\"SHORTCUT ICON\" href=\"http:\/\/garysieling.com:8081\/nexus\/favicon.ico\"\/>\nnpm ERR! <![endif]-->\nnpm ERR!\nnpm ERR! <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/garysieling.com:8081\/nexus\/static\/css\/Sonatype-content.css?2.11.2-04\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"screen\" title=\n\"no title\" charset=\"utf-8\">\nnpm ERR! <\/head>\nnpm ERR! <body>\nnpm ERR! <h1>400 - Store operations are only valid for package roots, path: \/-\/user\/org.couchdb.user:gsieling<\/h1>\nnpm ERR! <p>Store operations are only valid for package roots, path: \/-\/user\/org.couchdb.user:gsieling<\/p>\nnpm ERR! <\/body>\nnpm ERR! <\/html>\nnpm ERR!\nnpm ERR!\nnpm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:\nnpm ERR! <https:\/\/github.com\/npm\/npm\/issues>\n\nnpm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:\nnpm ERR! e:\\Projects\\npm-debug.log\n<\/pre>\n<p>The recommended way to fix this is apparently to bypass authentication entirely, by setting up your .npmrc correctly. To find out where this is, type:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">\nnpm config list\n<\/pre>\n<p>And the location will be visible.<\/p>\n<p>From here, you can add lines to the file like so:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">\ninit.author.name = Gary Sieling\ninit.author.email = gary@garysieling.com\ninit.author.url = https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\nemail=gsieling@wingspan.com\nalways-auth=true\n_auth=YWRtaW46YWRtaW4xMjM=\n<\/pre>\n<p>Note that both email addresses are required<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_4689\" id=\"identifier_1_4689\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"https:\/\/issues.sonatype.org\/browse\/NEXUS-7976\">1<\/a><\/sup>. 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