ios existing ca email address required

Question

When using keychain and certificate assistant to request a certificate from an existing CA, all the instructions say that I should click the "save to disk" option and that the "CA Email Address" should not be required.

The panel I see does not offer an option for "save to disk" and when I attempt to click continue without a CA Email Address it fails with the message that the CA email address is required.

How can I find what the CA Email address should be?

Do I have an obsolete version of the certificate assistant? When I check for updates it says that no updates are available. (Running OS X V 10.4.11 on a 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 with 1 Gb DDR SDRAM)

Answer 1

Solution:

• In the code signing request (CSR) window, there would be a field called "Request is", choose the radio button corresponding to "Save to disk".

Reason why you faced the problem:

• By default the the "Request is" field is chosen as "Emailed to the CA".

Note:

• To get to the CSR window, open Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Request a Certificate from a Certificate Authority.

Refer:

• https://developer.apple.com/ios/manage/certificates/team/create.action