Setting up for Push Notifications - can't create csr in Keychain Access

[trembler]

Evening all,

I'm just in the process of setting up my already released app for Push Notifications.

I'm following the steps to create the certificate signing request in Keychain Access and can't get it to work - here's what's happening:

- I open Keychain Access and make sure nothing is selected in the right hand side
- I click the "Keychain Access" menu
- I choose the "Request a certificate from a certificate authority" in the "Certificate Assistant" menu
- I type in the user email address and the common name and change the bottom options to "saved to disk"
- I then click continue and choose to save to the desktop (I've also tried to save elsewhere as well)
- I click save
- The "Show In Finder" button appears and I click it - nothing happens
- And there's also definately no csr file been saved to disk....

I've obviously done this before when I first started the app but that was about 10 months ago.

I'm on Snow Leopard 1.6.8, XCode 4.2.

Any idea why it's not working?

Cheers

Chris

[trembler]

An update on this... I tried this on my original (rather more virtual and I think back on 10.6.5) Mac that I originally used to see if I could create an app (quickly bought a macbook which is what I'm now using)...

Anyhow, the same process worked on the old mac and I noticed the dialog was slightly different and matched those in several example posts out there - such as this one - Apple Push Notification Services Tutorial: Part 1/2 | Ray Wenderlich

In the image of the "Certificate Assistant" there is a tickbox that says "Let me specify key pair information".

But - I don't have that option when I do this on my Macbook (10.6.8).

Any ideas why that could be? Have a somehow got a broken version of Keychain Access..?

I've also now tried to email those created from 'working mac' to 'non-working mac' but Keychain Access gives a load of importing errors...

[trembler]

Here's the key if you hit this problem... I found the solution over at here - iphone - Unable to create Apple Developer certificate request using keychain access tool - Stack Overflow

When you have the KeyChain Access window open - make sure you have "Certificates" selected on the left but then don't have any particular certificate selected on the right.

Now when I do, I have the extra option (not that I need it) but it then all works and successfully creates the CSR file.