diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/lightdm-greeters/pantheon.nix b/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/lightdm-greeters/pantheon.nix
index 087c6b9c38ac..9bc9e2bf6162 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/lightdm-greeters/pantheon.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/lightdm-greeters/pantheon.nix
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ in
     services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.extraSeatDefaults = "greeter-show-manual-login=true";
 
     environment.etc."lightdm/io.elementary.greeter.conf".source = "${pkgs.pantheon.elementary-greeter}/etc/lightdm/io.elementary.greeter.conf";
-    environment.etc."wingpanel.d/io.elementary.greeter.whitelist".source = "${pkgs.pantheon.elementary-default-settings}/etc/wingpanel.d/io.elementary.greeter.whitelist";
+    environment.etc."wingpanel.d/io.elementary.greeter.allowed".source = "${pkgs.pantheon.elementary-default-settings}/etc/wingpanel.d/io.elementary.greeter.allowed";
 
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/pantheon/desktop/elementary-default-settings/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/pantheon/desktop/elementary-default-settings/default.nix
index 3215c001a5e7..91755b5a2266 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/pantheon/desktop/elementary-default-settings/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/pantheon/desktop/elementary-default-settings/default.nix
@@ -83,8 +83,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     cp -avr ${./launchers} $out/etc/skel/.config/plank/dock1/launchers
 
     # Whitelist wingpanel indicators to be used in the greeter
-    # TODO: is this needed or installed upstream?
-    install -D ${./io.elementary.greeter.whitelist} $out/etc/wingpanel.d/io.elementary.greeter.whitelist
+    # hhttps://github.com/elementary/greeter/blob/fc19752f147c62767cd2097c0c0c0fcce41e5873/debian/io.elementary.greeter.whitelist
+    # wingpanel 2.3.2 renamed this to .allowed to .forbidden
+    # https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel/pull/326
+    install -D ${./io.elementary.greeter.allowed} $out/etc/wingpanel.d/io.elementary.greeter.allowed
   '';
 
   postFixup = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/pantheon/desktop/elementary-default-settings/io.elementary.greeter.whitelist b/pkgs/desktops/pantheon/desktop/elementary-default-settings/io.elementary.greeter.allowed
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/desktops/pantheon/desktop/elementary-default-settings/io.elementary.greeter.whitelist
rename to pkgs/desktops/pantheon/desktop/elementary-default-settings/io.elementary.greeter.allowed