Running xcodebuild from a forked terminal

Question

I\'m trying to setup an automated build server for an iPhone application. I\'d like to be able to have nightly adhoc beta builds so that testers can follow the development.<

Answer 1

If you're running security list-keychains and seeing your custom keychain appear SOMEWHERE in the list but it still doesn't work, it could be that you're running into the issue I had whereby the keychains are checked in order from the search list, and since I wasn't unlocking login.keychain in my SSH session, it would fail there rather than move to the next keychain in the list, which was the custom one I wanted to unlock.

Setting the search list to a custom keychain which you unlock with security unlock-keychain works. Using this method from Yann's answer will also remove your login.keychain from the search list.

To preserve login.keychain:

security list-keychains -s ~/Library/Keychains/custom.keychain ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain

This way, when using the GUI session at the machine you will still have access to login.keychain items, but code signing will check the custom keychain first, which succeeds if you've unlocked it.