npm login fails on password w/special characters

[nwgh]

While trying to "npm login" on a new machine, I was unable to complete the process. The username and password are correct (they work just fine on the website), but no luck. However, by changing my password to one that does not contain any of the special characters below, "npm login" works just fine.

The password that caused the issues (which is no longer in use, in favor of one I can npm login with) contained %, #, and ^ (as well as an assortment of alphanumerics, of course).

Console output and npm-debug.log are at https://gist.github.com/todesschaf/78a546787b19223ba40b

[kenany]

This falls under #5782 now.

[isaacs]

Seems to be fixed on 1.4 and master.

[madhums]

I am having this issue where my password contains ! as a special character. Just not able to login

λ node -v
v0.10.35
λ npm -v
2.3.0

[mgoldsborough]

Had the same issue here. My password had a carrot (^) and dollar sign ($) in it and I was unable to login via npm login.

$ node -v
v4.1.2
$ npm -v
3.3.8

Here's the output:

$ npm login
Username: [my_username]
Password: [my_password]
Email: (this IS public) ***@gmail.com
npm ERR! Darwin 14.5.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/Cellar/node/4.1.2/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "login"
npm ERR! node v4.1.2
npm ERR! npm  v3.3.8
npm ERR! code E400

npm ERR! Unknown error while authenticating : -/user/org.couchdb.user:[my_username]
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /path/to/my/log/npm-debug.log