Codesign broken in Mountain Lion

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Codesign broken in Mountain Lion

I want to codesign an app, uTorrent to be precise, since I changed the icon and I hate being asked every time to allow to run the app. The problem is that in Mountiai Lion I constantly get this error: "object file format unrecognized, invalid, or unsuitable". I am not a developer and I do not have Apple certificate but in Snow Leopard and Lion I could use codesign in terminal and my own certificate created in keychain to codesign apps and avoid issues like this. In some forums I found out that instaling latest version of xcode and some additional tools will resolve this (being able to codesign apps from terminal instead using xcode) but since I am not a developer and I do this very rarely I wondered if anyone found another way to solve this.

Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

Posted on Sep 25, 2012 2:56 AM

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Answer 1

thomas_r.

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Sep 25, 2012 3:36 AM in response to chirson

Only the developer can codesign anything. You can't. The problem is that you have broken the codesigning by modifying the app. Delete it and re-download a fresh copy of the app.

(Or, even better, don't re-download it at all. Torrents are a wonderful way to get malware onto your Mac!)

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Linc Davis

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Sep 25, 2012 9:16 AM in response to chirson

You don't need to codesign the application. Right-click its icon and select Open from the contextual menu. After that, you should no longer get the Gatekeeper dialog. You'll have to repeat the process with each new version.

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chirson Author

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Sep 26, 2012 6:27 AM in response to chirson

Hi guys,

Thanks for your reply but I think you are missing my point. I changed the app icon because I wanted to and I want to use the app whit my custom icon. I know that this breaks the code-signing and that is why I want to code-sign the app with my certificate. I can sign or at least I could in OSX 10.6 and 10.7 and as I described I still can if I download xcode and some additional tools from apple's website without obtaining certificate from apple or any other source. The point is that I do not want to use some 1.5GB of my disk space for software I am not using at all so I can code-sign an app through terminal and I was wondering if anyone has found an alternative solution.

All the best.

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