Mist: osx/macos app signing

[hems]

classic OSX issue.

A workaround is to right click and then click "Open"

[frozeman]

We would need a apple developer account to register a dapp i guess.
Your image doesn't work for some reason..

[obscuren]

• System Settings
• Security & Privacy
• Check "anywhere" in the Allow apps downloaded from: section

[hems]

@obscuren yes i know there is a couple of workarounds, but there was no issue for this problem. hence why i did it!

[hems]

@frozeman i just re-uploaded, nothing special anyway.

[frozeman]

@hems could you please download this version and see if you still get the same error?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20835796/Ethereum-Wallet-darwin-x64-0-3-1.zip

[hems]

@frozeman Yes i did, then it didn't. I'm not sure why ( maybe i launched the wrong one, by having both side by side ), i'm erasing all versions and downloading again.

[hems]

@frozeman Yes, still same error.

[frozeman]

can you check the bundler in the plist file?
click show package contents and then open to contents/info.plist.

Check there the package bundler. I now changed it to the default one from electron, which should be identified i guess...

[hems]

BuildMachineOSBuild
14D136
CFBundleDisplayName
Ethereum-Wallet
CFBundleExecutable
Electron
CFBundleIconFile
atom.icns
CFBundleIdentifier
com.electron.ethereum-wallet
CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion
6.0
CFBundleName
Ethereum-Wallet
CFBundlePackageType
APPL
CFBundleVersion
0.3.1
DTSDKBuild
14D125
DTSDKName
macosx10.10
DTXcode
0632
DTXcodeBuild
6D2105
LSMinimumSystemVersion
10.8.0
NSHighResolutionCapable

NSMainNibFile
MainMenu
NSPrincipalClass
AtomApplication
NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching

CFBundleShortVersionString
0.3.1

[frozeman]

and still you get the warning?
hm, ok then there is nothing we can do.. for now

[hems]

@frozeman yes, anyway it's all cool. just wanted to raise this issue, it's not a real problem but would be definitely something to solve.

[hems]

@frozeman maybe this thread could have some valuable information?

https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/616

[frozeman]

We will look at this some other time again. Thanks for the link

[tymat]

bump for this. For user adoption we should not require them to take extra steps to sign the app. The issue linked by @hems should take care of this issue (we followed the steps for our own app and it worked nicely)

[taoeffect]

Check "anywhere" in the Allow apps downloaded from: section

Just an FYI, this is a dangerous thing to do, and you don't need to do it.

If you want to run an unsigned app, right-click on it and click Open.

[hems]

I actually had an app on top of nw.js 0.8.6 and recently updated to 0.12 and tested on a new machine using El Capitan and that annoying warning didn't happen. So i guess maybe it's easier to update nw.js than go through this very boring apple procedure.

[tymat]

@hems nwsj in of itself will pass if they already signed the package. The problem is that Mist itself is a packaged Electron app so it will have a different checksum so the entire Mist.app has to be signed specifically.

[hems]

@tymat for some ( late night ) reason i was thinking you guys were using nw.js, my bad.

[frozeman]

Working on this, though its not so easy as all dependencies including geth have to be signed. If somebody has more experience with this i would appreciate help.

[hems]

oh man, these things nowadays are so boring :(

[frozeman]

Reminder:

Mist code:

• https://github.com/ethereum/mist/blob/onboarding/codesign

Pending electron issue

• https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/3871

Electron docs

• https://github.com/atom/electron/blob/master/docs/tutorial/mac-app-store-submission-guide.md

Apple docs:

• https://developer.apple.com/app-sandboxing/
• https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Miscellaneous/Reference/EntitlementKeyReference/Chapters/EnablingAppSandbox.html
• https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/15433

[sethlu]

Have a check on electron-packager and electron-osx-sign. Hope these tools may assist your code-signing procedure. @jasonhinkle and I are working on a walk-through to distribute apps inside/outside the app store for Electron-based apps in the public electron-osx-sign wiki.

[ajbhatia-visa]

I have this same issue and the workaround suggested here is not helpful. I am on a company MacBook Pro at work inside my company's internal network and, even though I have admin access to my machine, I do not have the ability to change security preferences, which allow only apps from the Mac App Store or identified developers. I searched on the Mac App Store also, but did not find Ethereum Wallet there.

You might say that I should discuss this with my company's admins to get an exception. However, I think it is very bad for the reputation of the Ethereum organization if its software requires security settings to be disabled. The workaround is clearly not acceptable.

[frozeman]

Reminder links:

• https://medium.com/juan-cruz-viotti/how-to-code-sign-os-x-electron-apps-in-travis-ci-6b6a0756c04a#.kzeglhtuk
• https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/wiki/Code-Signing#travis-appveyor-and-other-ci-servers

[luclu]

Added to Travis, should be available in 0.8.9.

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