iOS -- look inside provisioning profile? iOS -- look inside provisioning profile? ios ios

iOS -- look inside provisioning profile?


You can also do a text dump by typing

security cms -D -i <prov>

FWIW

  • security is to Administer Keychains, keys, certificates and the Security framework.

  • cms is a command within the security framework it stands for Cryptographic Message Syntax

  • -D is for decoding

  • -i means infile use infile as source of data (default: stdin)


You can more (or less) it in the terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal). Just respond with y to the question about viewing binary data.

The xml part is readable. For example you can view the ApplicationIdentifierPrefix and the keychain-access-groups. In the past those gave me some headaches.


A number of Quick Look plug-ins have been developed to inspect provisioning profiles:

After installing, just select the provisioning profile file in Finder and press space!

Quick Look plug-in for provisioning profiles