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I am using the 10.9.5 version and ios 8. When i try to install my certificate i got through my developer account for push notification for my app in the keychain local items, its not importing. The error says: Unable to import the certificate and the error code is 25294

Arun
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  • This is how I fixed it with the command line https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7485806/install-p12-or-cer-in-console-macos – visc Sep 12 '19 at 18:31
  • Still relevant for macOS 12.2 in 2022. Got the same issue when installing Charles Proxy's root certs: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/675290?login=true&page=1#703039022 – oligofren Jan 30 '22 at 08:53

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Try adding the certificate to the "login" keychain.

Dean Bolton
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    Please do not delete this answer, as it answers the question and I could not find this solution elsewhere –  May 07 '17 at 18:28
  • yeah that was my problem, I was in the "iCloud" keychain. Login one worked. – SeanMC Jan 21 '22 at 15:56
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I worked around this error by adding the certificate to the login keychain by drag and drop.

Christopher Stephan
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Instead of double clicking the .cer file and importing in finder I just drag & dropped it into the Keychain app in the desired keychain, that worked for me.

Daniel Lizik
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The error code means "No such keychain":

errSecNoSuchKeychain -25294 The specified keychain could not be found.

I'm not really sure on how to proceed, but maybe this information points you in the right direction.

bouke
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I'm really not sure about what you're question is asking, but I stumbled here while trying to solve the same error. The situation I had on my machine was I had a bunch of similarly named keychains in keychain access and the application would default to adding the .pem to a nonexistent keychain.

So I solved this by selecting the missing keychains one by one and deleting them all except my real System keychain, iCloud, and login. You might not have iCloud depending on your setup, version, and location.

Allison
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I solved this error by deleting old certificates from Keychain, then try to install certificate by double click.

Majid Omar
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