diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pam/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pam/default.nix
index 60b5478c2389..00a5a403e467 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pam/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pam/default.nix
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     url = http://www.nl.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/pre/library/Linux-PAM-0.80.tar.bz2;
     md5 = "ccff87fe639efdfc22b1ba4a0f08ec57";
   };
+  patches = [./pam-pwd.patch];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pam/pam-pwd.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pam/pam-pwd.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0fa10be5c274
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pam/pam-pwd.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -ruN Linux-PAM-0.80/configure Linux-PAM-0.80.new/configure
+--- Linux-PAM-0.80/configure	2005-07-04 14:09:55.000000000 +0200
++++ Linux-PAM-0.80.new/configure	2005-10-24 18:33:30.000000000 +0200
+@@ -1336,8 +1336,8 @@
+ 
+ 
+ 
+-LOCALSRCDIR=`/bin/pwd`         ;
+-LOCALOBJDIR=`/bin/pwd`         ;
++LOCALSRCDIR=`pwd`         ;
++LOCALOBJDIR=`pwd`         ;
+ OS=`uname|sed -e 'y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/'`
+ 
+