Cannot renew code signing certificate - maybe bug with german Umlaut?

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Cannot renew code signing certificate - maybe bug with german Umlaut?

Hello!

Since one month I expierence a message that I should renew my code signing certificate and today I thought it is time to stop this message.

Because I could not find anything about renewing the certificate in Mountain Lion I used the KB-article that discribes the process for Lion.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5358

after that I get this in at my terminal:

sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/certadmin --recreate-CA-signed-certificate 'myserver.domain.de Signierungszertifikate für Code' 'IntermediateCA_MYSERVER.DOMAIN.DE_1' 7D3E2458

when I press return I get this:

/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/certadmin Cannot find the certificate: myserver.domain.de Signierungszertifikate für Code

I checked it again and again - I cannot find any typo or something like that - so maybe Mountain Lion wants to renew the certificate in a different way or certadmin cannot cope with german "Umlaute" - "für" - in english for - but I did not gave this name it was given by the system when I setup the server one year ago.

Every hint is welcome, bye

Christoph

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 21, 2012 1:19 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 2, 2017 8:16 PM in response to Christoph Ewering1

This fixed the problem for me too.

A small little detail to change characters to lower case, but it did the trick and I was able to manually replace the code signing certificate. The replace button in the alerts tab in the server.app was not working.

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Answer 2

Oct 21, 2012 1:32 PM in response to Christoph Ewering1

I had a look into the KB article you mention.

I see that you should type in elglish into terminal (at least according to the KB article) that is Code signing certificate and not Signirungszerttificate für code.

I believe you are on the right path but I do not know how to go on.

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Answer 3

Oct 21, 2012 1:41 PM in response to WALTER-MILANO-ITALY

Hello Walter!

Well AFAIK the Commen Name is just a name and no translation but I gave it a try and got the same error.

So I replaced "Signierungszertifikate für Code" with "Code Signing Certificate" and got the same error.

But another user who seams to be a native french speaker has the same problem.

Thanks for your idea,bye

Christoph

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Answer 4

Oct 21, 2012 1:55 PM in response to Christoph Ewering1

I am stupid 😢 - I read the KB article again and there it says

"When entering the hexadecimal serial number, ensure that all letters are entered in lower case."

I retyped the command with lower case hex numbers and everything was fine 🙂

Bye,

Christoph

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Answer 5

Alanniah

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Jun 12, 2015 8:01 AM in response to Christoph Ewering1

Same Problem here and your answer solved the issue 😁

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