How can I add private key to the distribution certificate

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Well  I ve got my Developer Certificate linked with it s private key  Works Fine   I ve downloaded my iOS Profile of distributor  but it says Valid signing identity not found   So I checked my certificates  and exactly  my developer certificate it s linked with its private key but not my distribution certificate  How can I link add my private keys to this certificate     Will this solve the problem  Valid Signing identity not found

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Yes  the error you are getting means that there is not a private key on your Mac associated with the distribution certificate you are trying to use to sign the app   There are two possible solutions  depending on whether the computer who requested the distribution certificate is available or not   If the computer who requested the distribution certificate is available  or there is a backup of the distribution assets somewhere    From the computer where the distribution asset was generated  open Xcode  Click on Window  Organizer  Expand the Teams section  Select your team  select the certificate of  iOS Distribution  type  click Export and follow the instructions  Save the exported file and go to your computer   Repeat steps 1-3  Click Import and select the file you exported before    If the computer where the distribution profile was created is not accessible anymore  and there is not a backup   You have to revoke the certificate and create a new one   You may need to ask your team admin or agent to give you some privileges in order to generate distribution certificates  Once you have enough privileges  follow these steps  accurate as of 15-May-2013     Go to this webpage  https   developer apple com devcenter ios index action Click on  Member Center  and enter your iOS developer credentials  Click on  Certificates  Identifiers  amp  Profiles   Click on  Certificates  under the  iOS Apps  section  Expand the Certificates section on the left  select Distribution  and click on your distribution certificate  Click Revoke and follow the instructions  Click on the plus sign to add a new certificate  Select  App Store and Ad Hoc  option  and click Continue  Follow the steps printed in the webpage  That involves opening the Keychain application on your Mac and generate a Certificate Signing Request from there  Click Continue  Upload the  csr file and click Continue  A certificate is generated for distribution  Download it and double click it to integrate it in your keychain    Reopen Xcode and check your project configuration to see if you can now select an  iPhone Distribution  certificate  i e  it s not grayed out

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For Developer certificate  you need to create a developer  mobileprovision profile and install  add it to your XCode  In case you want to distribute the app using an adhoc distribution profile you will require AdHoc Distribution certificate and private key installed in your keychain   If you have not created the cert  here are steps to create it  Incase it has already been created by someone in your team  ask him to share the cert and private key  If that someone is no longer in your team then you can revoke the cert from developer account and create new

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This site explain step by step that what you need to do Certificates  Identifiers  amp  Profiles and as your question    Valid Signing identity not found     You need the private key that were used to sign the code base with provisioning profile    If you don t have then you can generate a new signing request on the iOS developer portal   For Export    Xcode -  Organizer  select your team  Click Export  Specify a filename and a password  and click Save    For Import    Xcode -  Organizer  select your team  Click Import  Select the file containing your code signing assets  Enter the password for the file  and click Open

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Valid Signing identity not found  This is because you don t have the private key for distribution certificate   If the distribution certificate was created originally on a different Mac you may need to import this private key from that Mac  This private key is not available to download from your provisioning portal   When you import the correct private key to your mac   XCode s organizer will recognize your already downloaded distribution profile as a  Valid profile   However if you do not have access to the original Mac which created those profiles  the only option you have is revoking profiles

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With Xcode 9 the interface has been updated and now the way I did to resolve the problem was this    Choose Xcode   Preferences  Click Accounts at the top of the window  Select the team you want to view Click the gear icon    in the lower-left       Export Apple Id and Code Signing Assets After entering a filename in the Save As field and a password in both the Password and Verify fields you ll see a Window like this      Click the gear icon    -  Click Import -  Select the file you exported in step 6

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Since the existing answers were written  Xcode s interface has been updated and they re no longer correct  notably the Click on Window  Organiser    Expand the Teams section step   Now the instructions for importing an existing certificate are as follows   To export selected certificates  Choose Xcode  gt  Preferences  Click Accounts at the top of the window  Select the team you want to view  and click View Details  Control-click the certificate you want to export in the Signing Identities table and choose Export from the pop-up menu     Enter a filename in the Save As field and a password in both the Password and Verify fields  The file is encrypted and password protected  Click Save  The file is saved to the location you specified with a  p12 extension    Source  Apple s documentation  To import it  I found that Xcode s let-me-help-you menu didn t recognise the  p12 file  Instead  I simply imported it manually into Keychain  then Xcode built and archived without complaining

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What i did is that   i created a new certificate for distribution form my Mac computer and gave signing identity from this Mac computer as well  and thats it

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since xcode5 organizer no longer team section exists  but the bold sentence was the answer for me  God thanks there is another mac to restore and import to problemmatic mac  now all is ok

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