Access denied when creating keystore for Android app

Question

I am trying to sign my Android app so I can release it in Market. When I generate the keystore, I get an access denied error. How do I fix this?

Answer 1

If you are on Mac, Add "sudo" at the beginning of your command "keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias my-key-alias -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000"

Answer 2

It does help you. You have to specify the location of the file that will be generated. For example specify C:\Documents and Settings\loginname\market.keystore

Answer 3

chagning read only on windows 7 helped me. don't forget the default password "changeit"

Answer 4

If you are using Windows 7, make sure you are running eclipse as an administrator.

Answer 5

Make sure there is no other keystore file at this location C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin. If there is, keep it somewhere else and try the command again:

keytool -genkey -v -keystore d:\my_private_key.keystore -alias my_key_alias -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

Answer 6

I had the same problem. You need to define your JAVA_HOME environment variable.

Read the "Basic Setup for signing" paragraph of this link : http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html#setup

It says:

Before you begin, make sure that the Keytool utility and Jarsigner utility are available to the SDK build tools. Both of these tools are available in the JDK. In most cases, you can tell the SDK build tools how to find these utilities by setting your JAVA_HOME environment variable so it references a suitable JDK. Alternatively, you can add the JDK version of Keytool and Jarsigner to your PATH variable.

If you are developing on a version of Linux that originally came with GNU Compiler for Java, make sure that the system is using the JDK version of Keytool, rather than the gcj version. If Keytool is already in your PATH, it might be pointing to a symlink at /usr/bin/keytool. In this case, check the symlink target to be sure it points to the Keytool in the JDK.