The specified item could not be found in the keychain
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The specified item could not be found in the keychain
Fix the not found keychain item issue by making the keychain the system default
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Trying to codesign
a macOS CLI on CI using certificates in a temporary keychain yielded the following error:
The specified item could not be found in the keychain
It turns out that even when passing the keychain with flags like --keychain
, if the keychain is not made the default one, it fails. Therefore, I ended up making it the default:
security create-keychain -p $KEYCHAIN_PASSWORD $TMP_KEYCHAIN_PATH
security default-keychain -s $TMP_KEYCHAIN_PATH
security import $CERTIFICATE_PATH -P $CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD -A
So, this blog post is a note for my future self because I'm sure I'll come across this again. Or perhaps for anyone coming across the same issue.