NPM-ADDUSER(1)

💖 npm-adduser — add a registry user account, bestie 💖

Okay so like, this is from the npm manual, section NPM-ADDUSER(1), and it's genuinely one of the cutest lil commands — it literally makes you a whole account. Let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

npm-adduser — add a registry user account

🌸 Synopsis

npm adduser

alias: add-user

Heads up bestie: this command is unaware of workspaces. Like, it simply does not know they exist. Not its business. 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So what it does: it creates a new user in the registry you specify, and saves the credentials to the .npmrc file. If you don't specify a registry, the default registry gets used (peep npm help registry for the deets).

When you run npm adduser, the CLI automatically generates a legacy token of publish type. For more info, see About legacy tokens ⟨/about-access-tokens#about-legacy-tokens⟩. Not me explaining legacy tokens, go read the link 😭

When you're using legacy for your auth-type, the username, password, and email are read in from prompts. So yeah, it's gonna ask you. Just answer the questions, icon. ✨

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⚙️ CONFIGURATION ⚙️

🌈 registry

• Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
• Type: URL

The base URL of the npm registry. That's it, that's the whole vibe.

🦋 scope

• Default: the scope of the current project, if any, or ""
• Type: String

Associates an operation with a scope for a scoped registry. So useful when you're logging in to or out of a private registry, fr fr:

# log in, linking the scope to the custom registry
npm login --scope=@mycorp --registry=https://registry.mycorp.com

# log out, removing the link and the auth token
npm logout --scope=@mycorp

This will cause @mycorp to be mapped to the registry for future installation of packages specified according to the pattern @mycorp/package. So every time you install something under that scope, it knows where to go. Slay. 👑

This will also cause npm init to create a scoped package:

# accept all defaults, and create a package named "@foo/whatever",
# instead of just named "whatever"
npm init --scope=@foo --yes

So cute, right? Named packages with a lil family name. 🎀

💜 auth-type

• Default: "web"
• Type: "legacy" or "web"

What authentication strategy to use with login. And important caveat time — if an otp config is given, this value will always be set to legacy. Like, no discussion. That's just the rule. 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• npm help registry
• npm help config
• npm help npmrc
• npm help owner
• npm help whoami
• npm help token
• npm help profile

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That's the whole page, bestie! Go forth and make yourself a whole account, you main character 🌟

NPM@11.19.1 · August 2026 · NPM-ADDUSER(1) — mwah, love u, go read the manpage again if u forgot something 💖💅🦋