diff --git a/news/41.feature b/news/41.feature
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..12939df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/41.feature
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Login the user in portal_membership
+[erral]
diff --git a/src/pas/plugins/oidc/plugins.py b/src/pas/plugins/oidc/plugins.py
index a1a2c3c..0a5ca25 100644
--- a/src/pas/plugins/oidc/plugins.py
+++ b/src/pas/plugins/oidc/plugins.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 from secrets import choice
 from typing import List
 from ZODB.POSException import ConflictError
+from zope.globalrequest import getRequest
 from zope.interface import implementer
 from zope.interface import Interface
 
@@ -229,6 +230,9 @@ def rememberIdentity(self, userinfo):
         if user and self.getProperty("create_restapi_ticket"):
             self._setupJWTTicket(user_id, user)
 
+        mtool = api.portal.get_tool("portal_membership")
+        mtool.loginUser(getRequest())
+
     def _updateUserProperties(self, user, userinfo):
         """Update the given user properties from the set of credentials.
         This is utilised when first creating a user, and to update