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Seems like your stack configuration file might be malformed - e.g. `Pulumi.dev.yaml`.

Mind sharing what was malformed? I think we can do a better job with that error message.

so i had some default configs in `Pulumi.yaml` that weren’t correct.

```
password:
    secure: &lt;pass&gt;```

Are you using a different backend then <http://app.pulumi.com|app.pulumi.com>? The S3 one or something else? I don't get the same error when i put that `password: ...` in my `Pulumi.dev.yaml`.

so something like `pulumi login s3://pulumi-&lt;aws-accountid&gt;-us-east-1/stack`