title: Xcode, how to retrieve developer ID for distribution outside mac store?
body: <p>I have already published my app on mac store, now I want to distribute my app outside Mac Store.</p>
  
  <p>I am following <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/DistributingApplicationsOutside/DistributingApplicationsOutside.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this tutorial</a> by apple. </p>
  
  <p>Here I am requesting for a Developer ID certificate, in Xcode->preferences->accounts->view details.</p>
  
  <p>When I select the Developer ID option after clicking on the little + icon, I get following error.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LciR9.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I have Developer ID Certification Authority intermediate certificate in my keychain which is needed for Developer IDs</p>
  
  <p>The tutorial also says> <em>Only a team agent can request Developer ID certificates. If you’re an individual developer, you’re the team agent and can request these certificates.</em></p>
  
  <p>You can see in the screenshot below, that I am an admin, so thats not an issue as well, what am I doing wrong?</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tS69Z.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I am not quite sure if its relevant, but upon exploring on Mac developer ceriticates, I found out that download button on Developer ID cert was disabled. 
  So I am thinking I must have forgot to create a developer ID, also the expiry of that cert is 2018, which seems weird.</p>
  
  <p>So If at all i have not created the Developer ID for some reason, how do I create those?</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/OMagc.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>