Fastlane 2FA issue

[airmikec]

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Required Information

Question, Bug, or Feature?
Type: Question - Bug

Enter Task Name: Publish to the App Store TestFlight track

Environment

• Server - Azure Pipelines

  • If using Azure Pipelines,
    • Organization/account name : digonsystems
    • Team project name : DIGON Systems
    • Release Pipeline : Builder FLOW Release Pipeline
    • Build definition name/build number : FLOW.APP.COMPLETE.dev.20240418.3

• Agent - Hosted :

  • If using Hosted agent, provide agent queue name: Job 50771 - macos latest

Issue Description

As you can see in the images below a specific task is running for 1.5 hours. It submits the code to Apple, and apple get's that code, and then it asks for a 2FA, and then it starts counting down right after that and it never ends. So after 1.5 hours I had to cancel the task, assuming it's still looking for a 2FA code, which there should be. I have added the Application Id and the Application Password. I read somewhere by adding the Application Id or password it bypasses 2FA. Don't know if that is true, but nonetheless, it's been added. Need to figure out how to get the task to stop after it sends it to Apple. From what I can tell, this is related to FastLane.

Task logs

Task log of the failing task
tasklog_9.log

Troubleshooting

Images showing what is happening.

Error logs

No error, it just never ends. I have to manually cancel the task. As you notice on the screen this task was running for 1.5 hours.

Update 2024-04-20

I chose to not install fastlane and I get the same 2FA problem.

Update 2024-04-22

I switched to using an Apple API Key because documentation says it by-passes 2FA and I am still having trouble authenticating.

[airmikec]

SOLVED.....

### Azure DevOps API Key Issues for deploying to Apple
To get this to successfully work on Azure DevOps Pipeline with an API Key. I ran into so many problems and tried everything I could find and this finally worked. Azure DevOps says you need use the base64 key. Well if you open up the .p8 and copy the base64 encoded string in there, that isn't what they want. They literally want you to copy all of the contenxt in the .p8 file to a base64 string. Don't modify the .p8 file. I found the solution at the follow source, and once you get the data.b64 file open it and copy the base64 string in that file. In the following article is discusses how to do this for Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu.

fastlane/fastlane#21531 (comment)