Npm ERR! code E401 NPM missing password tryin to deploy Strapi

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I’m attempting to deploy Strapi and I’m getting a 401 error that appeared to be related to an issue caused by my .npmrc file. I had an old auth token for Font Awesome in the file, and I believe I’m having the issue described here:

https://forum.strapi.io/t/cannot-deploy-new-v4-strapi-project-to-heroku-or-render-getting-401-unauthorized-error-on-fontawesome-request/16731

I removed my .npmrc file, deleted package.json, and re-installed dependencies. However, I still get the same error.

npm ERR! code E401
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR! Incorrect or missing password.
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR! If you were trying to login, change your password, create an
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR! authentication token or enable two-factor authentication then
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR! that means you likely typed your password in incorrectly.
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR! Please try again, or recover your password at:
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR!     https://www.npmjs.com/forgot
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR!
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR! If you were doing some other operation then your saved credentials are
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR! probably out of date. To correct this please try logging in again with:
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR!     npm login
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  npm ERR!     /opt/render/.cache/_logs/2022-09-30T20_51_48_160Z-debug.log
Sep 30 01:51:48 PM  ==> Build failed 😞

How can I further investigate and find the cause of the issue? Or, can anyone provide any ideas or solutions?

Austin

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Okay, it only worked for me after adding back my .npmrc, replacing the old contents of that file, then once again clearing package-lock.json and re-installing dependancies. Since this was very unclear, I first tried replacing my .npmrc and just setting it to the standard registry, without any better idea what to do, and that ended up working for me:

npm config set registry "https://registry.npmjs.com/"

Not sure what else would also work here, but in any case this finally solved it for me.

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