Hello, I have a problem with the passphrase. It did not prompt for the second time when I did the 

pulumi up

 . It actually forced me to set up the pass-phrase when I created the stack.  It is throwing me the following error.

constructing secrets manager of type "passphrase": unable to find either `PULUMI_CONFIG_PASSPHRASE` or `PULUMI_CONFIG_PASSPHRASE_FILE` when trying to access the Passphrase Secrets Provider; please ensure one of these environment variables is set to allow the operation to continue

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?

I don't understand your issue

no. I know how to set them on windows.

which OS are you on?

mac

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

okay will try that.

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

Thanks