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title: npm-login
section: 1
description: Login to a registry user account
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### Synopsis

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### Description

Verify a user in the specified registry, and save the credentials to the
`.npmrc` file.
If no registry is specified, the default registry will be used (see [`config`](/using-npm/config)).

When you run `npm login`, the CLI automatically generates a legacy token of `publish` type.
For more information, see [About legacy tokens](/about-access-tokens#about-legacy-tokens).

When using `legacy` for your `auth-type`, the username and password, 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.

### Configuration

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### See Also

* [npm registry](/using-npm/registry)
* [npm config](/commands/npm-config)
* [npmrc](/configuring-npm/npmrc)
* [npm owner](/commands/npm-owner)
* [npm whoami](/commands/npm-whoami)
* [npm token](/commands/npm-token)
* [npm profile](/commands/npm-profile)
