I'm member of development team, and the team admin sends me a distribution certificate to sign applicattion and send to him,i install it into Keychain but XCode cannot recognize the certificate, in Organizer there is info that Valid signing identity not found, what I'm doing wrong ?
You need the private key from the team admin. Whoever generated the certificate will have the private key in their keychain. They need to export that and send it to you along with the certificate.
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When creating a certificate for Entreprise Distribution, no private keys are created. Leading to show this message on XCode compilation : "... but their private keys are not installed."
I created the certificate this way :
Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Request a Certificate From a Certificate Authority
I put our account email adress and our account owner name as informations, then create the certificate.
In "https://developer.apple.com/" portal (with our Enterprise account) i create a new certificate of type "In-House and Ad Hoc" with the previous generated certificate.
Then i download this certificate and install it on the previous Mac (used to generate the certificate in first place)
That's all. In keychain access, when i right click on the installed certificate and do "export" the ".p12" possibility is grey.
Thanks in advance for the answers.
The key is actually resides in you keychain. There are multiple keychains available for your user like below:
Just make sure you are adding certificate to the same keychain using which you created the CSR file.
I'm still struggeling with Apple App-Store Certification for iOS Apps.
Now I have a client who has his own developer account, but I'm developing for him and doing all the stuff. I have a separate developer Account on my own. The Client authorized my account on Itunes Connect, as App Manager.
He created a Distribution Certificate, an App Id and a Provisioning Profile for the App ID and sent the certificate and the Profile to me. I included it in the keychain and can now select those in XCode.
But XCODE says: the provisioning Profile "doesn't include any certificate for which the private key is installed in keychain."
What am I missing? Do I need the private key of the clients? Or is there an other way to do this?
Any Help would be appreciated
You have two options:
1) Ask your client to export developer certificate from keychain(.p12) and share it with you.
2) You have to create a new developer certificates(By removing old one from keychain) by upload a new CSR certificate so the private key will be installed in your system.
if issue is with both(Developer and Distribution)certificate you need both to be exported from your client machine.
You need both certificate and private key (.p12). Ask your client to export the private key and shared it with you. Once you got the private key, install it in your system and you are good to go. Follow this tutorial to export the private key.
https://www.ironpaper.com/webintel/articles/how-to-share-an-ios-distribution-certificate/
Make sure your client export the private key of distribution certificate.
I have received a .p12 certificate from my Client. I have installed it to my KeyChain. I need to create a distribution provisioning using this and sign my app ipa with it.
How can I create the distribution profile using this information? Any help is appreciated
You cannot create a distribution profile from a certificate and private key. The provisioning profiles are created on Apple's developer site and must reference one or more certificate to be used with the profile.
You will need to either need to have the account owner create / download the profile from the developer site and send it to you, or grant you access as an admin on their team. Also, before you request the iOS distribution profile from your client, make sure you also check that the .p12 file that was sent contains the certificate and the private key for the cert. Without the private key, you won't be able to sign, even if you get the profile.
The 4 key pieces of code signing for iOS are the certificate, the private key for the certificate, the provisioning profile, and the entitlements. If you are missing any of these, or if they are out of sync, you will run into problems. The private key is exactly what it says - private. Apple does not have, nor does it want to store the private key. That is kept by the app owner. Apple will generate and allow you to download your certificate based off that private key (you share with them a cert signing request to generate the cert off of your key). Similarly, you can generate / download existing provisioning profiles from Apple's dev site. Finally, the entitlements in your app must match the entitlements granted on your profile. Those are assigned to your app, and the application's project settings requests access to services - this much match what is requested as part of the app ID / profile on Apple's dev site. So those are the key components; from your question, hopefully you can get your client to send you the provisioning profile. Also, you could potentially run into problems with out of sync entitements, if you need to do anything with additional services, like iCloud, if the client hasn't configured those properly for you.
I used XCode to download certificates after regenerating them. I noticed the distribution certificate didn't have a private key in the key chain. I saw that XCode now has a "reset" button so I used that. The new certificate has a private key but with a different name. It still worked though and allowed me to export and install an adhoc app. Also we have two dev teams, could this be the other teams private key?
When the certificate is first requested, the private key is generated and saved in the keychain on the Mac used to generate the request. Only this Mac will be able to actually sign the apps. As in your case, if you have more than one developer authorised to sign apps for distribution using this certificate, you'll need to export the private key from the original requesting machine, and import it into the keychain of other developers.
If you use the 'reset' button, it will revoke the existing certificate and issue a new certificate signing request from your Mac. This will also invalidate all provisioning profiles in the developer account that are tied to the previous certificate. Existing apps already in the iOS app store will be OK, but you will need to regenerate the provisioning profile with the new certificate for any new app signing.
I have to publish an iOS App with an Apple Developer Account which is not mine. I got the Developer Invitation to that Account and joined the team. I have to use an existing Distribution Certificate to sign the App but something went wrong because the valid signing identity for this certificate was not not found.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Here is what I did:
Joined the new Developer Account
Created a new Developer Certificate (created a certificate with the certificate assistant in my keychain and uploaded to the account in order to get my valid development certificate).
Certificate got approved from the Admin of the account (downloaded and installed on my mac)
Next I downloaded an existing Developer Proivisioning Certificate (downloaded and installed in my mac)
XCode says that no valid signing identity for that Development Proivisioning Profile was found. But am I right that this valid signing identity was downloaded in Step 3? Or what do I have to do to get it working? I thought I only need that Development Certificate in order to get all existing Development Provisioning Certificates to work. Or do I need the private key (.p12) exported from the Admin's machine?
If you need some additional information just let me know.
Cheers.
After your admin accepts your certificate request ask him to add that certificate to the provisioning profile you working on. Then download the provisioning profile and drag and drop to the xcode