OSX Keychain Access-Generate CSR from existing Private Key for APNS (Apple Push Notification Service)

Question

When you need to create a new certificate for APNS, the Provisioning Portal "wizard" always gives the steps to create a new CSR which means you need to create a new public/private key as well. These can start to get out of control, so is there a way to create a CSR (Code Signing Request) in Keychain Access from an existing Private Key instead of having to create a new one every time?

Thanks

Answer 1

When you go into Provisioning Profile to Enable/Configure Push Notifications, the first thing it asks for is a CSR (Code Signing Certificate).

You can generate this with an existing private key from Keychain Access instead of creating a new one.

Just open keychain access and then scroll thru and find a previous PRIVATE KEY (probably called YOUR NAME) and then right-click (two finger click) on it and choose Request A Certificate From A Certificate Authority With "bla bla bla".

I just enter the same email address in both User Email Address and CA Email Address, and choose Saved To Disk.

Then upload that to create your .cer files