I joined the Apple iPhone developer program at the $99 level and got
my access to the developer portal. I followed all the directions for
creating a certificate signing request, sending it Apple, downloading
and installing it along with the WWDC certificate, creating an app id,
setting the provision and downloading and installing the provision
into Xcode, etc. and when trying to get ANY application to install on
the iPhone I keep getting stopped at the same point--codesigning.
In desperation, I've tried to isolate the problem by creating a simple
Mac os X 10.5 app (not for the iPhone) and codesigning it, outside of
the iPhone. Same problem. I always get a "no such identity" error
when trying to use the Apple provided cert. I have tried all manner
of string combinations: "iPhone Developer: <First> <Last>", "iPhone",
"Developer" etc.
So, for example, given a simple app called "app1.app", I try something
like the following from Terminal:
$ codesign -s "iPhone Developer" app1.app
and I get the following error:
$ iPhone Developer: no such identity
I've tried using "sudo" and no difference. I've cleaned out my
keychain from any leftover apple provided certs. I've backed up my
keychains and started with an empty ~/Library/Keychains directory and
created brand new login keychain and imported the certs into that and
still the same problem. I've also run the Keychain first aid to fix
any issues and rebooting between attempts, etc. I can't get the --
verbose flag to tell me anything
If I create a self-signed cert, all works well and my app gets signed.
The only other unique thing about my environment might be that I
migrated from a PPC laptop (a power pc g4 powerbook) to a newer
2.5Ghz, core duo Intel based macbook pro and maybe something got
messed up with that. But I used the standard apple tools to do that.
I am completely stopped in developing for the Apple platform at this
point. I've spent three days trying to figure this out. I've used
PKI systems in the past and have never had this much trouble.
