How to install developer certificate/private key and provisioning profile for iOS development via command line?

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eonil picture eonil · Dec 6, 2010 · Viewed 30.9k times · Source

I'm configuring automated build server for iOS application project. I've done most of it. Now, it's the final round. The security.

Developer certificate/private key and provisioning profile can be easily installed into Keychain with GUI. But I want to do this via command line to automate even the configuring process. Exporting/importing certificates, private keys, provisioning profiles via command line.

Any recommendations will be very appreciated.

Answer

ablarg picture ablarg · Mar 17, 2011

The always allow GUI is being triggered because codesign hasn't been given an acl to access your private key. try this:

security unlock-keychain -p <my keychain password>
security import Certificate.p12 -k ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain -P password -T /usr/bin/codesign

The -T flag tells security to allow codesign to have access to the keys you are importing in Certificate.p12.

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