Keychain won't unlock from Jenkins script unless user logged in

Question

I had to:

1. Right-click on the private key in my keychain that my build process was trying to use
2. Click "Get Info"
3. Then the "Access Control" tab.
4. You can add specific apps (like "codesign") to the list of apps that are allowed access to that key, or just allow access from all applications.

This cleared it up for me.

More info in these comments: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12235462/544130 https://stackoverflow.com/a/14761060/544130

Running Jenkins without launchd works. I used the following command:

sudo su jenkins -c "JENKINS_HOME=/Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home /Library/Application\ Support/Jenkins/jenkins-runner.sh"

I stumbled upon the exact same issue recently.

security list-keychains -s /Users/john/Library/Keychains/xcode.keychain probably will fix your problem. Let me know if it works.

Recently I found a solution to this over there: Missing certificates and keys in the keychain while using Jenkins/Hudson as Continuous Integration for iOS and Mac development