Not being able to login to npm -- npm adduser not working

In various organisations it is common to code in environment that requires you to connect to a organisation specific repository or to use a specific user. Sometimes you want to push your package to a global npm (https://registry.npmjs.org/) repository and the process doesn't work. What I enjoy doing is to setup a local .npmrc file inside a project structure. Inside it I specify the registry configuration like:

registry = "https://registry.npmjs.org/"

adduser command runs in a scope of a registry. Often when you try to use it it tells you that your username doesn't exist, or user was incorrect because you were verifying against a server that is specified by registry parameter. Without running adduser command often your environment will pickup user credentials that are specified by your systeadmins and are related to a registry that is specific for the organization. That's why when you run following command w/o running ever adduser it often displays username:



If you run adduser command in a directory that has registry set to a different location your result will be different:


It is worth noticing that adduser command doesn't add any lines to local .npmrc file. File will only contain registry entry.