diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/shadow/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/shadow/default.nix
index 93e8c4d0fbbc..b44e2d99c89d 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/shadow/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/shadow/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pam }:
    
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "shadow-4.0.16";
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "shadow-4.1.4.2";
    
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://losser.labs.cs.uu.nl/~armijn/.nix/shadow-4.0.16.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "1d91f7479143d1d705b94180c0d4874b";
+    url = "ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-shadow/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "1449ny7pdnwkavg92wvibapnkgdq5pas38nvl1m5xa37g5m7z64p";
   };
-  
-  configureFlags = "--with-selinux=no";
 
-  postInstall = "rm $out/bin/groups"; # coreutils provides `groups'
+  buildInputs = [ pam ];
+  
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/;
+    description = "Suite containing authentication-related tools such as passwd and su";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9e98537ad46f..443f20d489fc 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6750,8 +6750,8 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
-  shadowutils = import ../os-specific/linux/shadow {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
+  shadow = import ../os-specific/linux/shadow {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv pam;
   };
 
   splashutils = import ../os-specific/linux/splashutils/default.nix {