---
title: npm-logout
section: 1
npm logout
Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.
When logged into a registry that supports token-based authentication, tell
the server to end this token's session. This will invalidate the token
everywhere you're using it, not just for the current environment.
When logged into a legacy registry that uses username and password
authentication, this will clear the credentials in your user configuration.
In this case, it will only affect the current environment.
If --scope is provided, this will find the credentials for the registry
connected to that scope, if set.
registryThe base URL of the npm registry.
scopeAssociate an operation with a scope for a scoped registry.
Useful when logging in to or out of a private registry:
# log in, linking the scope to the custom registry
npm login --scope=@mycorp --registry=https://registry.mycorp.com
# log out, removing the link and the auth token
npm logout --scope=@mycorp
This will cause @mycorp to be mapped to the registry for future
installation of packages specified according to the pattern@mycorp/package.
This will also cause npm init to create a scoped package.
# accept all defaults, and create a package named "@foo/whatever",
# instead of just named "whatever"
npm init --scope=@foo --yes