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SimplyKiwi
SimplyKiwi

Reputation: 12444

Keychain Access Oddness?

In my Keychain Access I have my distribution certificates and there is an odd bug where if I delete a certain certificate, it comes back after I close the application or if I restart Xcode. This certificate is my second distribution certificate and I do not use it for anything but whenever I try to archive something it says:

(My Name) distribution certificate appears more than once in the keychain.

So I delete it and everything is fine because I didn't restart anything. But once I do, it comes back even though I delete it!

Is this a bug or something?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 333

Answers (2)

Pierre-Francoys Brousseau
Pierre-Francoys Brousseau

Reputation: 682

I had the same problem and finally managed to solve it: I had to remove the certificate from the cache xCode keeps. Then every time I would load xCode it would re-add the old certificate and then complain that I have two of the same (smart xCode!).

Solution: *Delete certificate from keychain. *ALSO delete everything related to it in xCode Organizer (command+shift+2).

To be sure I quit both key-chain and xcode, re-start them and it is finally gone.

Upvotes: 1

gabrielf
gabrielf

Reputation: 2269

I think it's a bug with the Keychain application. I am having the same problem but with other Keychain items. I delete them but as soon as I interact with an application that uses the Keychain, such as a web browser visiting a page with a remembered password, all of the removed items comes back. It doesn't matter if I restart the computer after the deletion, the items still comes back.

I've had the very same thing happening in Safari where cookies keep coming back. Both on OS X Snow Leopard and Lion. Very frustrating and worrying.

Upvotes: 2

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