Read from keychain results in errSecItemNotFound 25300

Question

I store username & password using keychain, sometimes when I tried to get the password of the username, it told me errSecItemNotFound.

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Answer 1

@graver

http://opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-55471/sec/Security/SecBasePriv.h

errSecMissingEntitlement = -34018, /* Internal error when a required entitlement isn't present. */

Answer 2

When reading the keychain, make sure you always build with a provisioning profile linked with the appId that used to create the keychain record.

Answer 3

Tony: that error is simply OSStatus error -34018 - client has neither application-identifier nor keychain-access-groups entitlements.

This could be happening as a result from using a nonstandard app signing method or some other problem with your entitlements. Make sure you're building simply out of Xcode and not using alternate signing methods unless you completely understand them.