Electron-builder: Temporary keychains created by electron-builder

[paulbennet]

• Version: 20.38.5

• Target: DMG

Just noticed these temporary keychains being created in my machine. Though the keychain files are not physically available in the specified locations, this still shows up in the "Keychain access" utility.

1. Does electron-builder create these temporary keychains ?

2. If so how to avoid these or cleanup once build process is done

3. Should I be worried about these ?

Note: Been using electron-builder for a while ( 1+ yrs ). So, not sure from which version these happened. I tried safe booting the mac ( which was suggested to cleanup temporary cache files ), but still didn't work.

[mikerogne]

I noticed that every time build/publish a new release, a new entry like this is created in my ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist file:

<dict>
  <key>DbName</key>
  <string>/private/var/folders/_g/c03jtl312n1bv8jmklvb8wjc0000gn/T/t-77iass/2.keychain</string>
  <key>GUID</key>
  <string>{...}</string>
  <key>SubserviceType</key>
  <integer>6</integer>
</dict>

And the more entries in this file, the longer code signing takes each time. It got to the point where it would take 5+ minutes just for codesign to run... and when I removed all of the duplicates in that file, codesign would only take a few seconds to run.

Discovered this "fix" via: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40257968/slow-app-compilation-with-new-sierra-update/40605435#40605435

Curious why electron-builder is having this effect?