title: Xcode: "Your account does not have permission to create iOS Distribution Certificates" as Team Member
body: <p><strong>Forward:</strong> There are many similar SO questions with regard to this error. I've visited dozens of them over the past days, but none seem to have a solution to my problem. They mostly are from developers with full admin rights, unlike myself. Most solutions are also hacks or unclear.</p>
  
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  <p>I am a member of a developer team at Apple's developer.apple.com site. I've been charged with uploaded an iOS application I've developed to iTunesConnect, in order to be able to deploy it with TestFlight. </p>
  
  <p>In order to successfully accomplish this. I asked for the following to be done. </p>
  
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  <li><a href="https://imgur.com/VgRqwVV" rel="noreferrer">That I be added as a member developer</a>. See <a href="https://imgur.com/2dqQAG5" rel="noreferrer">certificates here</a>.</li>
  <li><a href="https://imgur.com/2pno9Fp" rel="noreferrer">A matching App with the same <em>bundle-ID</em> be created for me on iTunesConnect</a>.</li>
  <li><a href="https://imgur.com/udS0DPR" rel="noreferrer">A <strong>Distribution</strong> provisioning profile be added at developer.apple.com for my specific App</a>. </li>
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  <p>Despite all of this. When I try to <strong>validate the app</strong>, I'm met with the following message.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://imgur.com/wFkatdv.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://imgur.com/wFkatdv.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>It would appear from a <a href="https://imgur.com/dOSO9S1" rel="noreferrer"><strong>manual signing attempt</strong></a> that <strong>because the provisioning profile was created by a team administrator, that I cannot sign it without their private key</strong>. Assuming this is correct, then how can any developer ever distribute apps if:</p>
  
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  <li><p>A distribution provisioning profile requires you be the creator in order to be validated.</p></li>
  <li><p>Only a team admin can create a distribution provisioning profile.</p></li>
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  <p>This appears to be a paradox.  </p>
  
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  <p>What can be done to resolve this conflict? I am only a member of this development team temporarily, and would like to formulate a clear solution to this problem so that I do not test their patience with repeated troubleshooting questions. To make it easier to answer this question, I've attached some extra images that might be useful.</p>
  
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  <li>My app's <a href="https://imgur.com/4oGc6iN" rel="noreferrer">general panel</a> in Xcode when using automatic signing. It shows I am signing on behalf of the team.</li>
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