Testflight fails with 2 factor authentication

[wesleyfsmith]

When attempting to push to testflight I get the following error from iTunes Transporter.

[19:10:07]: Your account has 2 step verification enabled
[19:10:07]: Please go to https://appleid.apple.com/account/manage
[19:10:07]: and generate an application specific password for
[19:10:07]: the iTunes Transporter, which is used to upload builds

I have generated an app-specific password, but it's not clear to me how I can set this password with meteor launch. It appears that fastlane has support for setting this password, but I don't think I can pass the password in to meteor launch. Perhaps this should be another variable in the launch.json file?

So close to getting meteor-launch running I can almost taste it!

[johnthepink]

@wesleyfsmith you should be able to set the password in launch.json using FASTLANE_PASSWORD. Poorly named variable, but that should get you there :)

[wesleyfsmith]

I actually tried that but then it actually errors out earlier in the process saying "Invalid User Credentials", which I'm assuming is because it's failing to log into my apple account.

I found this fastlane issue which makes it sounds like there is some sort of prompt where I would normally be able to paste in the app-specific password, which makes it seem like it is different than my appleId password.

I looked at your file here but I can't figure out where I would detect if a prompt occurred because I don't fully understand the project well enough yet. Maybe somewhere in here I would be able to put in the password at the prompt?

 execSync("fastlane ios deploy", { // Maybe this object can pass more params?
      stdio: [0, 1, 2],
      env, //or could it be set here?
    });

I appreciate the help!

[johnthepink]

@wesleyfsmith ah. You may need to try this:

https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/tree/master/spaceship#2-step-verification

Basically, this generates a hash from your 2 step that is valid for a month. Then, you should be able to include that in launch.json as a variable named FASTLANE_SESSION.

This seems like it may get annoying, so maybe I can build it in to launch somehow?

[wesleyfsmith]

So I tried that, I was actually never able to get it to work. Are you sure FASTLANE_SESSION is getting passed through?

I've been able to get meteor-launch working for other builds though.

[johnthepink]

Oh nice! I'd love to see/hear about what you are using it for. I want to get a "Who's Using Launch?" section going.

That's a good question. I've got a test for making sure env vars get passed in to the launch envinroment here https://github.com/NewSpring/meteor-launch/blob/master/src/__test/util.js#L22-L27

I'll try to setup two-factor and test it out myself soon.

[wesleyfsmith]

Awesome! What's weird is that one of the times when I've had two factor auth enabled, it opened the window on my mac with the 6 digit code, and spaceship prompted me to enter the code. I thought the issue had been magically fixed, but then I entered the code and it errored out. Afterward, it went back to the old error and never prompted me for the 6 digit code again, nor did it bring up the two factor screen with the code like it did the first time. Strange, huh?

[KrauseFx]

Copied from the fastlane repo, not sure about meteor_launch specific points, I hope it helps 👍

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Hey everyone, fastlane now fully supports both two-factor and two-step verification 👋

Please make sure to update to the latest version of fastlane by running

fastlane update_fastlane

If you use a Gemfile, just run bundle update

On your computer 🚀

To use fastlane with two-factor, just run fastlane as you usually would. You'll be asked for the verification method, and a 4 or 6 digits pin. Everything will just work out of the box 📦

On your continuous integration system 💻

Check out the official two-factor docs for more information on how to setup two-step on CI system. You'll have to authenticate on your local machine to get a session cookie, which you then transfer to your CI.

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If you have any issues setting this up, please submit a new issue so we can help you get up and running 👍

[johnthepink]

@KrauseFx thanks so much for the info, and also for the work you are doing! Fastlane is awesome.

Hopefully I will have time to get this working soon.