Does iOS natively support LDAP? Is there a trustworthy library to do so?

Either there aren't, or my search skills have deteriorated. 

I have clients who would like to pre-populate names and email addresses, maybe 
verify the user’s membership in an approved department; they don’t even have to 
authenticate, just take “fritza” and derive the rest. The first thing they 
think of is LDAP.

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Here is what my searches have turned up:

Some undocumented constants in various frameworks; the current documentation 
structure doesn’t always refer back to how or where a constant is used.

A number of vendors of back ends that include LDAP as part of their service.

A few iOS apps that’ll do lookups standing alone. Not a solution for me but 
evidently it’s not that Apple hates LDAP in principle.

Also, many references to an Xcode 4-era project on GitHub[1] that makes me 
itch. At least some of the many dependencies, and workarounds for tools and the 
OS will have rotted in the six years since.

[1] https://github.com/bindle/LdapKit

There is a package-managed solution for that library — MacPorts. I try not to 
use more than two or three package managers at a time.

After an hour and a half I had other work to do, but if it’s worth the time, 
I’ll go back to it.

It’s a common enough need. I assume if I haven’t found anything there’s nothing 
to find.

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As a consolation prize: When I explain to clients LDAP isn’t a practical 
solution, they look at me as if I or Apple had a hole in our heads. Can anyone 
tell me the rationale?

        — F
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