iOS: config profile for mobile device management

Question

I am able to create and install(in iOS devices) general mobileconfig profile generated by iPhone configuration utility(IPCU) v3.5(289) in Mac OS 10.6.8.

But when I am ge

Answer 1

You can use a new certificate for the identity certificate - it does not have to be one from either developer account. Upload the certificate (p12 format) as a new 'Credential' and then select this certificate for the MDM payload in iPCU.

Answer 2

While generate self-signed ssl certificate in server side,generate identity.p12 certificate and this certificate you need to use in identity section of IPCU.

These few lines you can use to generate the idendtity.p12

//Creating the device Identity key and certificate request

openssl genrsa 2048 > identity.key
openssl req -new -key identity.key -out identity.csr


//Signing the identity key with the CA. 
//Give it a passphrase. You'll need to include that in the IPCU profile.

openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in identity.csr -CA cacert.crt -CAkey cakey.key -CAcreateserial -out identity.crt

openssl pkcs12 -export -out identity.p12 -inkey identity.key -in identity.crt -certfile cacert.crt