ERR! 403 when trying to publish a package to npm

Question

I'm trying to publish a package to npm. You can see the repository here: https://github.com/biowaffeln/mdx-state

I logged in to npm with npm login, then I ran npm publish and got the following error message:

npm ERR! code E403
npm ERR! 403 403 Forbidden - PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/mdx-state - Forbidden
npm ERR! 403 In most cases, you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! 403 a package version that is forbidden by your security policy.

I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Okay, I found the problem. Apparently, I didn't verify my email address, so that's why I didn't have the permission to upload packages. Talk about an unhelpful error message!