npm install gives unauthorized name or password is incorrect error

Question

When I try to install tap using

npm install tap 

I get the following error:

npm ERR! Error: unauthorized Name or password is incorrect.: tap 

Here's the entire response:

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/tap npm http 401 https://registry.npmjs.org/tap npm ERR! Error: unauthorized Name or password is incorrect.: tap npm ERR!     at RegClient.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js:253:14) npm ERR!     at Request.init.self.callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:120:22) npm ERR!     at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:91:17) npm ERR!     at Request.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:648:16) npm ERR!     at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:115:20) npm ERR!     at IncomingMessage.Request.start.self.req.self.httpModule.request.buffer (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:610:14) npm ERR!     at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:115:20) npm ERR!     at IncomingMessage._emitEnd (http.js:366:10) npm ERR!     at HTTPParser.parserOnMessageComplete [as onMessageComplete] (http.js:149:23) npm ERR!     at CleartextStream.socketOnData (http.js:1366:20) npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at: npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues> npm ERR! or email it to: npm ERR!     <[email protected]>  npm ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-31-generic-pae npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "tap" npm ERR! cwd /home/thaddeus npm ERR! node -v v0.8.8 npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.59 npm ERR!  npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR!     /home/thaddeus/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0 

Answer 1

Found the answer.

Remove .npmrc from my home directory and it works!

Thanks to mcollina https://github.com/mcollina at https://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/2778