diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 976fc4b0f5..22c159d639 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ jobs:
           key: ${{ hashFiles('**/yarn.lock') }}
       - uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v1
 
+      # without this we would get E403 and ENEEDAUTH while publishing
+      # it is unclear why setup-node does not take care of this
+      - run: npm config set //registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken $NODE_AUTH_TOKEN
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+
       - name: Install modules
         run: yarn install --frozen-lockfile
 
diff --git a/internals/scripts/source/publish.ts b/internals/scripts/source/publish.ts
index c6561da3ea..75097b6f58 100644
--- a/internals/scripts/source/publish.ts
+++ b/internals/scripts/source/publish.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import { $, semver } from 'bun'
 import { z } from 'zod'
 
-const packagesToConsider = ['packages/yoco']
+const packagesToConsider = ['packages/eslint-config']
 
 const packageJsonSchema = z.object({ name: z.string(), version: z.string() })