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title: mxisd
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description: Federated Identity, Authentication and Directory service
author: Kamax.io
maturity: Late beta
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mxisd is a federated Matrix Identity Server for self-hosted Matrix servers with enhanced features.
It provides the following features for your Matrix Homeserver:
- Link to an already existing Identity store - No more duplication of data that would already be in your AD/LDAP, forums, CRM, etc.
- Link to the central Matrix Identity servers (vector.im & matrix.org) to provide native experience
- Search people by name (or anything else!), looking in your Identity store and your homeserver (integration with Directory API)
- Invite people by e-mail, phone number, etc. instead of Matrix IDs
- Show who's using Matrix and their ID on your smartphone when looking to invite people to a Direct chat or Group chat
- Allow people to link identifiers (e-mail, phone number) to their Matrix account to be locally or globally searchable
- Provide an all-in-one authentication backend for synapse using the [REST auth module ](https://github.com/kamax-io/matrix-synapse-rest-auth )
mxisd is is an implementation of the [Identity Service API ](http://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/unstable.html ) which aims to provide an alternative to [sydent ](https://github.com/matrix-org/sydent ) with much added value and features.
Come talk to us on Matrix at [#mxisd:kamax.io ](https://matrix.to/#/#mxisd:kamax.io )!
Follow the progress and grab the code from [GitHub ](https://github.com/kamax-io/mxisd ).
