Mac keychain access certificate assistant

Mac keychain access certificate assistant install#
Mac keychain access certificate assistant code#
Mac keychain access certificate assistant password#

Security unlock-keychain -p build.keychain Security default-keychain -s build.keychain Security create-keychain -p build.keychain MACOS_CERTIFICATE: $Д®cho $MACOS_CERTIFICATE | base64 -decode > certificate.p12

Mac keychain access certificate assistant install#

# Install dependencies and build you app here # github/workflows/build.yml and add the following content to it. If youвЂ™re not already using Github Actions to build your code, create a new workflow file.

Mac keychain access certificate assistant password#

Create a new repository secret, IвЂ™ve called it MACOS_CERTIFICATE, and paste the encoded certificate.Д¬reate another secret name, for example MAOS_CERTIFICATE_PWD, where you store the certificate password youвЂ™ve created earlier. Go to your Github project and navigate to Settings -> Secrets where you can add new secrets. Open your terminal and encode the certificate to base64, you can also copy it to the clipboard at the same time by running: base64 Certificates.p12 | pbcopy Generate it and note it down, weвЂ™ll need it shortly. Then it will ask you to create a password for it.

From the available formats pick Personal Information Exchange (.p12).

LetвЂ™s export the certificate by selecting both the certificate and its private key, invoke its context menu and select Export 2 items вЂ¦. For that purpose, weвЂ™ll make use of a little trick by encoding it to base64 first and then decoding it during the workflow.

Mac keychain access certificate assistant code#

To be able to use the certificate for automated code signing, we need some format which would allow us to store the certificate as a string, so we can later add it to Github Secrets as an environment variable. The certificate should be added to one of your default keychains and not to the system otherwise you might later have troubles exporting it. You can then upload the CSR request file to the web which should successfully create a new certificate for you.Дownload it and add it to your Keychain Access by simply opening it. Note that the email address should be the same as the one youвЂ™re logging to the developer account. To be able to obtain the certificate, you need to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) first, which you can easily get by opening Keychain Acces and going to Certificate Assistant -> Request a Certificate from a Certificate AuthorityДЇill in the necessary information and select your request to be Saved to disk. From all the listed types, select Developer ID Application as per its description.

After logging to your developer account and selecting Certificates IDs & Profiles, you should be able to create a new certificate. This allows you to obtain the necessary certificates, release to App Store and much more. Another prerequisite is an Apple Developer Program subscription.

If youвЂ™d like to know more how and why weвЂ™ve built it, you can check out вЂњ How we built Localazy CLI: Kotlin MPP and Github ActionsвЂќ written by my colleague VГЎclav.ДЄt this point, IвЂ™m assuming that you have your app or binary already compiled in the environment CI and the last step missing is to sign it before release. To give you a little bit more context, weвЂ™ll be signing a macOS distribution of Localazy CLI tool. However, it might get quite tricky in a CI environment, where you donвЂ™t have direct access to UI tools and password dialogues. Code signing on macOS locally is usually straightforward using the codesign utility.