AuthToken Publish issue

Sonatype Nexus Repository
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I was trying to publish app to our internal Nexus repo (PRO 3.46.0-01) from our GitLab pipeline job. I created the publish token from the Nexus UI (base64 encoded user: base64 encoded password) But I got this error:

*npm notice Publishing to https:///repository/gitlab/ with tag latest and default access npm http fetch PUT 401 https:///repository/gitlab/reference-app 629ms npm verb stack HttpErrorAuthUnknown: Unable to authenticate, need: BASIC realm=“Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager” *

As part of my debugging, i changed the code from
"npm config set ${npm_publish_registry_host_and_path}:**_authToken**" "${NPM_PUBLISH_TOKEN}"

" npm config set "${npm_publish_registry_host_and_path}:**_auth**" "${NPM_PUBLISH_TOKEN}"" and it started working.

Please note that “NPM Bearer Token Realm” is enabled in our Nexus.

Is there anything wrong in the way Token generated ?(User Tokens)

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For Pro you can file a support ticket.

I believe your issue here is that those User Tokens would be used as an alternative for Basic Auth headers rather than an npm Token. If you’re looking to get a token for npm you’d want to use npm login (you could also use the user/password from the User Token rather than the real username & password)