Eduroam is a collaboration between universities which enable travelling students and scientists to log in to a host university's wireless network with their own home university username and password.
Eduroam-enabled networks are most common in Europe but can also be found at universities elsewhere in the world, and also in some public libraries, airports and train stations.
If you have a computer account at Stockholm University or KTH Royal Institute of Technology you can log in to any eduroam-enabled wireless network in the world (including, of course, our local network at Nordita/AlbaNova).
The instructions on this page are for users at Stockholm University. If you visit Nordita from elsewhere you need to obtain the eduroam configuration information from your home university. Just serach for "eduroam" on the university home page.
Read more about Eduroam at Stockholm University.
| Security: | 802.1x EAP |
| EAP method: | PEAP |
| Phase 2 authentication: | MSCHAPV2 |
| CA certificate: | "unspecified" or "Do not validate" |
| Identity: | <your SU username>/ppp@SU.SE |
| Anonymous identity: | leave blank |
| Password: | <your SU eduroam password> |
Make sure your account has an assigned assurance level.
This should have been done when your account was activated, but you can fix it later if you need to.
Activate eduroam and get password.
You first need to go to kontohantering.su.se to activate eduroam for your account (only needed once), and to get your special eduroam password.
Configure your device.
Next you need to configure your laptop, tablet, cell phone or other networked device to store your eduroam credentials; the simplest way to do this is to install special profile files provided by Stockholm University (see below).
Connect to network.
You are then ready to connect to any eduroam network in your vicinity. If you added an eduroam profile to your device, you don't even to have to log in.
To activate eduroam or to reset your eduroam password your SU computer account needs to have a SWAMID Assurance Level, at least level AL1. Typically this should have been done when you activated your SU account after first arriving at Nordita, but if the assurance level is missing you should follow these instructions on how to assign an assurance level to your account. Here you can also read about how to check if you account's assurance level has been set.
Remember to write down your eduroam identity and password! You will need them later when you configure your devices for eduroam. If you forget your eduroam password there is no way to retrieve it. You will have to generate a new password, and reconfigure all your eduroam enabled devices.
Please note that your "eduroam identity" will be on this format:
Here you should replace <username> with your own SU account username. If, for instance, your username is "nbohr", then your eduroam identity will be:
It is very important that you write "SU.SE" in upper case!
An eduroam identity and password needs to be provided every time a device connects to a wireless network. Since these are cumbersome to remember, you are advised to configure your device once and for all. You can either do this manually (exactly how depends on the system on your device), or, more conveniently, download and install profiles which automate the configuration process.
Stockholm University provides some guides for automated and manual configuration of common devices. YMMV.
Manual configuration
You connect to an eduroam wireless network just as you would to any wireless network. Just select "eduroam" from the list of detected networks (how you get to this list of course depends on the system on your device). If you have configured your device for eduroam in advance you will just be connected automatically and can start surfing immediately. If not, you will be prompted for your eduroam identity and password (I told you to write them down).
Enjoy!
This page was printed on 2025-12-16 from old.nordita.org/handbook/computing/network_help/eduroam_login
