E401 errors when publishing with scoped :_auth

[morleytatro]

• What are you trying to do? Publish a library to Nexus

• What feature or behavior is this required for? This is required for publishing with npm 9.x.

• How could we solve this issue? (Not knowing is okay!) Really unsure where the root of the issue lies, as our devops team doesn't see a way to modify how it's behaving on the server-side.

• Anything else? When using the following config, on publish (but not installation), we're getting E401 errors:

  @figure:registry=https://nexus.figure.com/repository/npm-group/
  //nexus.figure.com/:_auth=${NEXUS_NPM_TOKEN}
  always-auth=true
  save-exact=true

In contrast, leaving auth unscoped (which throws errors with npm 9.x), works fine:

registry=https://nexus.figure.com/repository/npm-group/
_auth=${NEXUS_NPM_TOKEN}
always-auth=true
save-exact=true