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Seems to be possible to comment out the encryption:salt key in Pulumi.STACKNAME.yaml then pulumi destroy continues without asking for password

What change did you make when you started seeing Pulumi not recognize your passphrase?That certainly shouldn’t be possible. 

basically moved the directory, although there might have been other changes I can't remember.