Codesigning a non App Store application

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Created Aug ’20

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Hi everyone,

I am trying to build an app created by a software company that supplies its applications to us.
They have their own Installation Maker for Mac. The builder requires an Apple Developer ID and the App password.

I have created the App password, but I am lost with where I should find the Developer ID. We have a Team ID in the Dashboard and I also created a Developer ID Application certificate on my Mac via the dev website.

I still cannot find the Developer ID. The new certificate is named Apple Development: Name Surname (XXYYYWWW).
Is the ID in the brackets the Developer ID?

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Aug ’20

The new certificate is named Apple Development: Name Surname
(XXYYYWWW).

You have created the wrong type of signing identity. An Apple Development identity is for day-to-day development. If you want to distribute outside of the Mac App Store, you need a Developer ID signing identity. There’s two flavours of that:

Developer ID Application: TTT, where TTT identifies your team, is used for signing code and disk images.
Developer ID Installer: TTT is used for signing Apple installer packages (.pkg files).

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lml OP

Nov ’20

Thanks for your helpful info, eskimo!

Question remains once the Developer ID Application cert is created: is the XXYYYWWW part inside the parens the actual ID?

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