Add npmAuthenticate task to fix E401 errors on CI agents#7363
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Pull request overview
This PR hardens CI for the Azure DevOps report publishing task by preventing npm from sending potentially stale agent-level credentials to a public Azure Artifacts npm feed, avoiding intermittent E401 failures.
Changes:
- Add
always-auth=falseto the task’s project-level.npmrcso npm won’t send auth headers for read operations against the public registry.
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Provides a fresh npm auth token on every build, preventing stale agent-level credentials from causing E401 errors on public feeds. Fixes #7362
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Problem
Some
NetCore-Publicpool agents have stale npm auth tokens inC:\Users\cloudtest\.npmrc. Whennpm ciruns against the publicdotnet-public-npmfeed, npm sends these stale credentials instead of using anonymous access, resulting in E401 errors. This has been blocking PR #7361 (Dependabot security fix) for 2 days.Fix
Add
npmAuthenticate@0pipeline task before the Build Azure DevOps plugin step ineng/pipelines/templates/BuildAndTest.yml. This provides a fresh valid token on every build, overriding any stale agent-level credentials.Evidence
Two different agents failed across separate builds while others succeeded in the same build:
Fixes #7362