--store-password-in-keychain-item is not adding the entry in keychain

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OneTwoThree OP

Created Dec ’19

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Hi,

I am trying to add the NOTARIZE_PASSWORD entry in keychain to automate the notarization process. I have Mac 10.15.1 and XCode 11.2.1 installed. Following command does not add an entry in the keychain. Could you please help?

xcrun altool --store-password-in-keychain-item "NOTARIZE_PASSWORD" -u "user" -p "password"

regards

Prema Kumar

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Answer 1

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Dec ’19

This is working for me (I spent a lot of time playing around with it as part of responding to this DevForums question). Does

altool

output anything relevant? How are you testing for new keychain items?

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Answer 2

OneTwoThree OP

Dec ’19

Hi,

I have three machines with same configuration. In one machine it worked and other two it did not. Terminal is not printing any errrors. No output in terminal after running the command.

I check in the "Keychain access" utility whether it is added or not.

regards

Prema Kumar

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Answer 3

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Dec ’19

Did you try quitting and relaunching Keychain Access. I’ve definitely seen situations where it doesn’t update after other processes make changes behind its back.

Failing that, do a

security dump-keychain

before and after the

--store-password-in-keychain-item

invocation and then diff those dumps to see if anything changes.

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