Problems exporting-importing p12 private key for developing on another Mac

[designedright]

Hello everyone,
This is my first post on this great forum and it is a post in distress. I have registered as an iPhone Developer and have went all the way through registering, paying, created all needed certificates and imported them on my machine, with compile errors being for application provision now - so it is ready to create provision and compile for distribution. But when I try to send the certificates to a team-mate coder so he can compile our application on his own Mac, he has problems importing the private key (in P12 file format). After entering the password for importing P12 Private Key, he gets the error:

"An error has occured. Unable to import an item" The contents of this item canot be retrieved

We have been trying for some time and nothing works out. Can anyone help me what can be done so the private key can be imported on another Mac? I am not ready to create a company account because I have to go through company registration which could slow me down, so if anything can be done for me and my team-mate to work together through one certificate, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

[exorcyze]

I had to switch Macs after I had already been developing and was able to just use the Keychain to Export and then re-import with no problems. If I recall correctly, the Dev Center has a walkthrough on it - did you follow that out of curiosity?

[designedright]

Originally Posted by exorcyze

I had to switch Macs after I had already been developing and was able to just use the Keychain to Export and then re-import with no problems. If I recall correctly, the Dev Center has a walkthrough on it - did you follow that out of curiosity?

I admit I do not understand certification properly. So I'll ask couple questions:
1. Can two Macs have the the public / private keys of a single iPhone Certificate at once? Can I have it and my team-mate have it and can we both build using that certificate? Or just one of us needs the certificate while the other must remove it from his keychain?
2. What is the order of importing public private keys? Do I have to import the public key first (Pem file) and then the private key (P12)?

[okkercat]

I'm gonna go ahead and bump this, because Im having major trouble with this too. I've followed all the instructions on the Dev Center, got my client to export his keys properly, but when I try to import it I get the error above. Also, interestingly enough, the private key (but only the private key) appears in my keychain, and is associated with the proper distribution certificate. I will pay anyone who helps us out 100 bucks. Not really, but cmon guys, this is really frustrating stuff, eh?

[silverlight]

till now, I also have similar questions.
It's kind of interesting, most developers don't need to trasfer private/public keys to their clients.

Originally Posted by designedright

Hello everyone,
This is my first post on this great forum and it is a post in distress. I have registered as an iPhone Developer and have went all the way through registering, paying, created all needed certificates and imported them on my machine, with compile errors being for application provision now - so it is ready to create provision and compile for distribution. But when I try to send the certificates to a team-mate coder so he can compile our application on his own Mac, he has problems importing the private key (in P12 file format). After entering the password for importing P12 Private Key, he gets the error:

"An error has occured. Unable to import an item" The contents of this item canot be retrieved

We have been trying for some time and nothing works out. Can anyone help me what can be done so the private key can be imported on another Mac? I am not ready to create a company account because I have to go through company registration which could slow me down, so if anything can be done for me and my team-mate to work together through one certificate, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

[snakewa]

Originally Posted by designedright

Hello everyone,
This is my first post on this great forum and it is a post in distress. I have registered as an iPhone Developer and have went all the way through registering, paying, created all needed certificates and imported them on my machine, with compile errors being for application provision now - so it is ready to create provision and compile for distribution. But when I try to send the certificates to a team-mate coder so he can compile our application on his own Mac, he has problems importing the private key (in P12 file format). After entering the password for importing P12 Private Key, he gets the error:

"An error has occured. Unable to import an item" The contents of this item canot be retrieved

We have been trying for some time and nothing works out. Can anyone help me what can be done so the private key can be imported on another Mac? I am not ready to create a company account because I have to go through company registration which could slow me down, so if anything can be done for me and my team-mate to work together through one certificate, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Hope this still helps.

I got the same problem and finally I solve this by:

In Keychain, select three items: Your private key, public key and the cert from Apple

CMD+Click to select "export 3 items"

and you will export one .cer file. Then double click to import the file without keying any password to protect so.

[maat]

Folks,
you should first import your certificate and them export both - you even set a password to the exported key.

Regards,

Originally Posted by snakewa

Hope this still helps.

I got the same problem and finally I solve this by:

In Keychain, select three items: Your private key, public key and the cert from Apple

CMD+Click to select "export 3 items"

and you will export one .cer file. Then double click to import the file without keying any password to protect so.