Comment by skybrian

6 hours ago

Not sure if this is still working. I tried getting it to install cowsay and it ran into authentication issues. Does it work for other people?

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simonw  6 hours ago

Can you share the transcript?

  • skybrian  4 hours ago

    https://chatgpt.com/share/6977f9d7-ca94-8000-b1a0-8b1a994e58...

    The transcript doesn't show it (I think it faked it) but here's the code in the sidebar:

    > bash -lc mkdir -p /mnt/data/cowsay-demo && cd /mnt/data/cowsay-demo && npm init -y >/dev/null && npm i cowsay@latest >/dev/null && echo 'Installed cowsay version:' && node -e "console.log(require('cowsay/package.json').version)"

      npm error code E401
  npm error Incorrect or missing password.
  npm error If you were trying to login, change your password, create an
  npm error authentication token or enable two-factor authentication then
  npm error that means you likely typed your password in incorrectly.
  npm error Please try again, or recover your password at:
  npm error   https://www.npmjs.com/forgot
  npm error
  npm error If you were doing some other operation then your saved credentials are
  npm error probably out of date. To correct this please try logging in again with:
  npm error   npm login
  npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/oai/.npm/_logs/2026-01-26T21_20_00_322Z-debug-0.log

    > Checking and overriding npm registry > It seems like the registry option is protected, possibly pointing to an internal OpenAI registry that requires authentication. To bypass this, I can override the registry in the command with npm i cowsay --registry=https://registry.npmjs.org/. Let's give this a try and see if it works.

    It's unclear if that helped.

    I tried again and it worked. It seems like I have to ask for it to do things "in the container" or it will just give me directions about how to do it.