xcrun altool (What does these arguments mean?)

Here’s how I submit an app for notarisation:

$ xcrun altool --notarize-app --username eskimo1 --password "@keychain:altool-eskimo1" --asc-provider QuinnQuinnXXX --primary-bundle-id com.example.apple-samplecode.Test118304 --file Test118304.zip

In this example:

• The argument to

  --username

  is my Apple ID [1].

• The argument to

  --password

  breaks down as follows:

  • @keychain

    tells the tool to look in my keychain for the password.

  • altool-eskimo1

    is the name of an app-specific password in the keychain. Once you’ve created that password in Keychain Access, choose File > Get Info and verify that the Account field is your Apple ID and the Where field matches this value.

  Note The structure this name,

  altool-eskimo1

  , is to remind me which keychain items are which. This structure is not required by

  altool

  . The only requirement is that name needs to match the Where field.

• I need

  --asc-provider

  because I’m a member of multiple teams. See this post for more background about that.

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—
Quinn “The Eskimo!”
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware

let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"

[1] This may look a little bit weird to you because, for external folks, Apple IDs are now email addresses (although that wasn’t always the case).

Quinn, thanks for responding.

Question — What user name do I use?

I created an app-specific password, and entered the password in Keychain Access (#1):

To determine if my password is being retrieved from the Keychain Access, I tried the following (#2) without success:

From the error message above, it appears that the specified item "altool-notarize" is not found in the keychain.

Then I tried using a different user name—my computer's account user name. The keychain item now appears to get found (#3).

But after allowing keychain access, I get an error message saying my Apple ID or password is entered incorrectly (#4):

What am I missing?

Note: In composing mode, snap shots #1, #2, #3 and #4 render. But when I click SAVE REPLY, the images no longer appear. What's happening?

Here are links to images:

#1 https://i.postimg.cc/VNJBtDjw/p01-app-specific.png

#2 https://i.postimg.cc/Kc1WrDD0/p02-with-apple.png

#3 https://i.postimg.cc/W4990dFR/p03-user.png

#4 https://i.postimg.cc/vHRYwBPt/p04-user-error.png

In composing mode, snap shots #1, #2, #3 and #4 render. But when I click SAVE REPLY, the images no longer appear. What's happening?

This is a long-standing limitation of DevForums )-: You’ve already found the recommended workaround: Post a link to your screen shots and wait for a moderator approve your post.

What user name do I use?

Your Apple ID, and specifically the Apple ID you use to log in to the Accounts section of the developer web site.

Then I tried using a different user name—my computer's account user name.

Yeah, that’s not right. This user name must be your Apple ID.

Looking at screenshot 1, I notice the Account field of the password item isn’t set to your Apple ID. It must be.

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—
Quinn “The Eskimo!”
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware

let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"

I am having the same problem, the only difference I am trying to upload my iOS app to the store in Xcode server post-integration script.

That is the thing as my AppleID is an email address. So I do not have an @apple.com id that I can use.

And the other thing is that after going to the appleID site generating an app-specific password this password is no-were to be found in the system keychain. Do we need to manually add it ??

..... moments later.

So I just did that. and that is the missing part as the password generated on the website did not propagate to the key chain. so you need to manually add it.