2 iOS developer certificates with same names

Question

we have a little Problem here and I hope you guys can help me out!

Situation: We are enrolled in Apples Developer Program (for distributing Apps in the App Store). Since last week we're also enrolled in the Enterprise Program (for in-house App distribution).

Problem: We proceeded with the development and building of the Apps. But we didn't knew that we have to use two different developer certificates for the different Programs. We have now 2 certificates with the same name and XCode is producing an error message each time we want to build the app saying "the certificate cannot be assigned exactly".

Question: How do we change the name of one of the developer certificates?

Many thanks for your help in advance!!!

Heathenism

Each certificate has a different user ID. Are you sure the name is causing you the problem? – Affricate

@BaselAbdelaziz That indeed is an issue. The only way around is to deinstall / reinstall the "right" certificate needed for the current build-process as Xcode uses the name to resolve it. There may be ways to automate that step but I have no solution available. – Neibart

@Till, can you precise your workaround a little bit? If I deinstall the certificate I still have to change the name at Apple, right? – Heathenism

Possible Duplicate https://mcmap.net/q/1319893/-issue-with-two-ios-distribution-certificates-with-same-name-and-different-private-keys-closed/1149906 – Josephina

Answer 1

You already have default login keychain So you can add one certificate in login keychain. And then create new saperate keychain with different name and add your second certificate to that keychain. Now in your Xcode target setting find keychain certificate path to be used for target and choose appropriate keychain path.

e.g. For one certificate path ........./login/.....

For another certificate change path to ......../mynewkeychain/......

Barris

Answer 2

I feel your pain, as I have been in the same situation before. You can't easily change the certificates' names. Apple usually does not allow that. Dhawal's answer is correct, in that you will have to put your certificates into different keychains.

If you want to script your build process, you have to unlock and lock the appropriate keychains security unlock-keychain before you call xcodebuild. So that only the one certificate you want to sign with is accessible.

There are two very good projects that make managing the keychains and building a lot easier:

• Openbakery's Gradle Xcode Plugin
• rayh's xcoder for use with rake

Percussion

Whenever I create a certificate, the name of the certificate in developer.apple.com is same i.e the company name. How can I add a string suffix to that? – Ponceau