# npm-adduser

Add a registry user account

## SYNOPSIS

    npm adduser [--registry=url] [--scope=@orgname] [--always-auth]

## DESCRIPTION

Create or verify a user named `<username>` in the specified registry, and save the credentials to the `.npmrc` file. If no registry is specified, the default registry will be used (see `npm-config(7)`).

The username, password, and email are read in from prompts.

To reset your password, go to https://www.npmjs.com/forgot

To change your email address, go to https://www.npmjs.com/email-edit

You may use this command multiple times with the same user account to authorize on a new machine. When authenticating on a new machine, the username, password and email address must all match with your existing record.

`npm login` is an alias to `adduser` and behaves exactly the same way.

## CONFIGURATION

### registry

Default: http://registry.npmjs.org/

The base URL of the npm package registry. If `scope` is also specified, this registry will only be used for packages with that scope. See `npm-scope(7)`.

### scope

Default: none

If specified, the user and login credentials given will be associated with the specified scope. See `npm-scope(7)`. You can use both at the same time, e.g.

    npm adduser --registry=http://myregistry.example.com --scope=@myco

This will set a registry for the given scope and login or create a user for that registry at the same time.

### always-auth

Default: false

If specified, save configuration indicating that all requests to the given registry should include authorization information. Useful for private registries. Can be used with `--registry` and / or `--scope`, e.g.

    npm adduser --registry=http://private-registry.example.com --always-auth

This will ensure that all requests to that registry (including for tarballs) include an authorization header. See `always-auth` in `npm-config(7)` for more details on always-auth. Registry-specific configuration of `always-auth` takes precedence over any global configuration.

## SEE ALSO

- npm-registry(7)
- npm-config(1)
- npm-config(7)
- npmrc(5)
- npm-owner(1)
- npm-whoami(1)