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OSX security find-identity can't find identities in ssh-ed machine

I am ssh-ing into otherosx OSX (10.10.3) machine from my OSX(10.10.3) machine in order to build a mac application.

ssh user@otherosx

Then on otherosx I try to import identities like this:

security default-keychain -s /path/to/my/login.keychain
security unlock-keychain 
security import my_identity.p12 -P passphrase

Then I try to find my identity:

security find-identity

and I get this: 

Policy: X.509 Basic
  Matching identities
   0 identities found

  Valid identities only
   0 valid identities found

Does anyone know how to fix this? Did anyone experience the same issue?

PS. I also tried full paths everywhere, and security list-keychains -s /path/to/my/login.keychain before unlocking keychain and searching for identities.

Solution

  • OK, it seems that if you import like this:

    security import my_identity.p12 -k /path/to/my/login.keychain -P passphrase

    then it works. At least worked once for me.

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