OT - Mac Notarization Problem - Desperation setting in

[matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de]

Congratulations. Good to know that you could resolve it.

And now you know why wanted to do a remote session to repeat all steps from creating app-specific pw to connecting to apples services. ;)
We could have found out sooner. ;) Unfortunately your security office prohibited the use of Teamviewer. 

Anyway, your are now setup to use Notarytool.

Matthias


> Am 25.08.2023 um 22:34 schrieb Timothy Bleiler via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> I think I’ve solved it.  I’m very grateful to Matthias both for his code signing tool and his personal help with this problem.
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> In the end it looks like the trouble was caused by a combination of my limited experience with the process and a lack of helpful feedback from Apple’s online tools at critical points.
> 
> Here’s what happened.
> - I have 2 user accounts on my Mac that use different Apple IDs.
> 
> - Somehow the one I use for the Apple developer account had made my Mac NOT a trusted device for the Apple ID I use for development. I have no idea how this happened.
> You can verify that your device is trusted at appleid.apple.com <http://appleid.apple.com/><http://appleid.apple.com/> for your account under “Devices”.
> 
> - Despite the device not being trusted for the account, the website let me think I’d created an app-specific password. I hadn’t succeed, but my lack of experience prevented me from realizing that the second step of the process is getting the actual password back from Apple and copying it down.  I didn’t get anything, no error message, so in my ignorance I thought the seed string I’d typed in WAS the password. So, I did NOT have an actual app-specific password to use in the NotaryTool commands. This caused all commands dependent on an app-specific password to fail.
> 
> What solved it for me was to go to System Settings, sign out of the Apple account on the mac and sign back in again.
> Then sign back in to appleid.apple.com <http://appleid.apple.com/><http://appleid.apple.com/>, verify that my Mac was a trusted device on my developer account and then create a NEW app-specific password.
> This time I saw the second part when they send the actual password. I think you need to copy this down because I don’t see any way to recover it again later.
> 
> Once I had the new app-specific password and my Mac was a trusted device in my developer account, the notaryTool commands worked without errors.
> 
> It all makes me long for the days when we could easily pass around Hypercard stacks for the fun of it!!
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