LDAP on iOS
LDAP on iOS
- Subject: LDAP on iOS
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 14:57:41 -0600
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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