User account

1. Go to account.usn.no

2. Click Activate account.

3. Everyone with a Norwegian national identity number must activate the user account by logging in to ID-port. Foreign students and employees without a Norwegian national identity number will be sent a unique activation link to their private e-mail address.

4. You must approve the ICT regulations and have read the privacy policy.

5. Enter the desired password twice. The password must be at least 16 characters long, and you will receive an error message in red if it does not meet the requirements or if there are different passwords in the two fields.

6. Wait 1 hour, then set up Two-factor authentication on your account

   If your user account has not been created yet, you will receive an error message with contact information.

   When your account has been activated, you will receive an e-mail with your username.

After activating your user account, wait at least one hour before setting up two-factor authentication.

Guide on how to set up two-factor authentication.

• Students

  User accounts are automatically created when students are created and activated in the student register. The user account can be activated no earlier than 30 days before the start date of the course, and you will receive an e-mail with the necessary information when your user account is ready for activation. The main recording takes place approx. 1 August each year, but students are also admitted at other times during the year.
   

• Employees

  A user account is automatically created when the contract is signed and registration of all information in the USN's payroll system has been completed by the Salary and Personnel Services Section. Your user account can be activated no earlier than 7 days before the start date in the payroll system, and you will receive an e-mail with the necessary information 3 days before.

Go to account.usn.no and click Forgotten password.

Everyone with a Norwegian social security number must log in to the ID portal to set a new password. If you do not have access to MinID/BankID, you can click on Can't use ID-porten. Foreign students and employees without a Norwegian social security number must click on Can't use ID-porten, enter a username or email address (both private and USN email addresses work), and click on Send email link. Click on the link you will be sent to your private email address after a few minutes and follow the instructions to set a new password. NB! You must also have your mobile phone handy as the one-time code is only sent via SMS!

Your password must meet the following requirements:

• Must be at least 16 characters long.

• Passwords are case sensitive.

• No character must be repeated sequentially more than 3 times.

• Do not include parts of your name or username.

• Passwords will be checked against a list of passwords from data breaches.

• The password may contain letters, numbers and special characters.

• Special national letters must not be used.

• Examples of special characters ,;.:-_*!”#’%&/()<>^=?@$+\{|}~[]`

NB! Note that the keyboard position of special characters may vary with your selected keyboard language setting.

The username for active student user accounts created before 04.10.24 will be the student number. For employees, it will consist of just letters taken from the name. All new user accounts created after 04.10.24, for both students and employees, will consist of five letters (taken from names) followed by four numbers.

This information applies to USN user accounts where you select the University of South-Eastern Norway as an affiliate when logging in via Feide.

One important site that gives you useful information about Feide is https://innsyn.feide.no/.
This site is great for testing that everything is fine with your Feide account. 

In the “My info” tab, you will find all the information registered about you in ITs user database. 

The “Consent” tab gives you an overview of the Feide services you have logged into and accepted the transfer of data to. You can also withdraw consent for one or more services in this tab if you no longer need to log in to them. 

The “Services” tab provides an overview of the Feide services USN subscribes to.

If you want access to a Feide service that USN does not subscribe to, send an inquiry to it-support@usn.no. Feel free to send with the link to the login page on the relevant service as this simplifies the processing of your request.

From 15.03.24, strong authentication (two-factor login) has been introduced on all Feide services except WISEflow, Lovdata and Innsyn. The choices for two-factor are Entra ID (Microsoft account) and ID-porten. From 30.09.24, the fields for username and password have been removed from the login screen. Now only the options Entra ID (Use work or school account) and Log in using  ID-porten can be selected. We recommend using Entra ID, which is the Microsoft account you use at USN, i.e. <username>@usn.no, as this is the easiest. You log in with <username>@usn.no and confirm your login with the Authenticator app, as when logging in to Microsoft 365. To be able to use ID-porten, you must have a Norwegian birth number or D-number and a BankID, MinID or Buypass ID. This is a backup solution if you have problems using Entra ID.