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I'm not sure I understand your issue. Just set `PULUMI_CONFIG_PASSPHRASE` to the passphrase you've initially set up and you'll be good to go

Its not prompting me for the 2nd time when I do pulumi up.

It should not prompt you, it only does so when initializing

so can you help me with the steps to resolve this?

do you know how to set environment variables?

Assuming you're using bash, and your password is `foo`, you can either use the password on every command:
`PULUMI_CONFIG_PASSPHRASE=foo pulumi up`
or set it for the current shell:
```export PULUMI_CONFIG_PASSPHRASE=foo
pulumi up ```

if you want to set it permanently, you'll have to add it to your `bash_profile` , but I would highly recommend reading up on environment variables and bash