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AI-generatedpnpm install fails with 401/403 when registry token is expired or read-only
When pnpm install or pnpm publish fails against a private registry, the failure often surfaces as a generic HTTP 401 Unauthorized or 403 Forbidden relayed from the registry. Because pnpm stores npm-compatible tokens in .npmrc and does not define its own fine-grained roles beyond read-only and read-write, the output does not inherently distinguish between an
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