diff --git a/concourse/pipeline.yml b/concourse/pipeline.yml
index 2787513b8..7f09f95e5 100644
--- a/concourse/pipeline.yml
+++ b/concourse/pipeline.yml
@@ -850,6 +850,8 @@ jobs:
     file: tasks/concourse/tasks/publish-theia-releases.yml
     input_mapping:
       sts4: tasks
+    params:
+      npm_token: ((npm_token))  
     on_failure:
       put: slack-notification
       params:
diff --git a/concourse/set-pipeline.py b/concourse/set-pipeline.py
index 7493d19fb..5655b9c14 100755
--- a/concourse/set-pipeline.py
+++ b/concourse/set-pipeline.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ def replace(infile, outfile, findword, replaceword):
 branch = os.popen("git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD").read().strip()
 
 if branch == 'master':
-    os.system('fly -t tools set-pipeline --load-vars-from ${HOME}/.sts4-concourse-credentials.yml '+
+    os.system('fly -t tools set-pipeline --load-vars-from ${HOME}/git/sts4-concourse-build-credentials/.sts4-concourse-credentials.yml '+
               '      --var "branch=' + branch + '" ' +
               '      -p sts4-'+ branch +' -c pipeline.yml')
 else:
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ else:
     replace("pipeline.yml", "pipeline-"+branch+".yml", "snapshot", branch)
     with open(fname, 'r') as fin:
         print fin.read()
-    cmd = ('fly -t tools set-pipeline --load-vars-from ${HOME}/.sts4-concourse-credentials.yml ' + 
+    cmd = ('fly -t tools set-pipeline --load-vars-from ${HOME}/git/sts4-concourse-build-credentials/.sts4-concourse-credentials.yml ' + 
         '--var "branch=' + branch + '" ' + '-p sts4-' +branch+' -c '+fname)
     print cmd
     os.system(cmd)
diff --git a/concourse/tasks/publish-theia-releases.sh b/concourse/tasks/publish-theia-releases.sh
index 1b321d12c..c8f1f646e 100755
--- a/concourse/tasks/publish-theia-releases.sh
+++ b/concourse/tasks/publish-theia-releases.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 set -e
 workdir=`pwd`
 
+envsubst > ~/.npmrc << XXXXXX
+//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${npm_token}
+XXXXXX
+
 theia_tgz_files=`ls ${workdir}/s3-*-theia-*/theia-*.tgz`
 
 for theia_tgz_file in $theia_tgz_files
diff --git a/concourse/tasks/publish-theia-releases.yml b/concourse/tasks/publish-theia-releases.yml
index 7be130324..ff9e9545c 100755
--- a/concourse/tasks/publish-theia-releases.yml
+++ b/concourse/tasks/publish-theia-releases.yml
@@ -11,4 +11,5 @@ image_resource:
   type: docker-image
   source:
     repository: kdvolder/sts4-build-env
-  
\ No newline at end of file
+params:
+  npm_token: npm-auth-token-for-publishing
\ No newline at end of file