macOS my certificate keeps getting revoked

[topdrawer]

i'm not a paid developer and i'm only sharing my game with a few people. it works for a few days and then all of a sudden my certificate gets revoked. my game is sandboxed with only access to read the music folder. i'm trying to figure out why it gets revoked after a while and i suspect that i may be doing it myself when working in xcode.

i do work on 2 separate computers form time to time and i think sometimes when building the game it creates a new certificate and revokes the previous one. maybe? i'm only gonna use one computer for now to see if that changes. currently my other computer shows the same certificate but says it is not in my keychain. which i'm gonna leave as is and not touch it.

does anyone have any experience with this?

 

[szymczyk]

How many days is "a few days"? Certificates last for only 7 days on a free developer account.

 

[casperes1996]

How many days is "a few days"? Certificates last for only 7 days on a free developer account.

Yeah, exactly - this sounds more like expiration than revocation.

 

[topdrawer]

Yeah, exactly - this sounds more like expiration than revocation.

it's not for ios and the certificate says it expires in 1 year. also the revokes have between 1 - 14 day gaps. sometimes the revoke happens the day after, sometimes in a couple of weeks.

 

[casperes1996]

it's not for ios and the certificate says it expires in 1 year. also the revokes have between 1 - 14 day gaps. sometimes the revoke happens the day after, sometimes in a couple of weeks.

Oh it's a Mac program? That changes things. - Could just not codesign it at all then and require the users to force it to be run without checks

 

[topdrawer]

Oh it's a Mac program? That changes things. - Could just not codesign it at all then and require the users to force it to be run without checks

i think i'll give that a try. i have a very tiny user base, i think i can instruct them to do that. tho, i think i tried that before. but i can't remember.

anyway, thanks.

 

[topdrawer]

it's been 8 days, i haven't touched xcode and my game is still working. i'm guessing i'm voiding my own certificate when i make a new build.

edit may 14: so my certificate lasted 11 days. i opened xcode on my imac, it shows a new certificate. opened xcode on my macbook, the old certificate is revoked, the new certificate is listed "not in keychain". i don't know what i did.