diff --git a/vars/build.vars b/vars/build.vars
index 4c499c0..87fad19 100644
--- a/vars/build.vars
+++ b/vars/build.vars
@@ -1871,7 +1871,7 @@ mailutils mtr mutt microsocks nginx openlitespeed openssh pacman rsync socat tht
 : ${PKG_OPENSSH_SHA256SUM:=02f5dbef3835d0753556f973cd57b4c19b6b1f6cd24c03445e23ac77ca1b93ff};
 : ${PKG_OPENSSH_VERSION:=8.1p1};
 : ${PKG_OPENSSH_URL:=http://artfiles.org/openbsd/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-${PKG_OPENSSH_VERSION}.tar.gz};
-: ${PKG_OPENSSH_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:="--with-libedit"};
+: ${PKG_OPENSSH_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:="--with-libedit --without-shadow"};
 : ${PKG_OPENSSH_DEBUG_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:=--disable-strip};
 : ${PKG_OPENSSH_INSTALL_TARGET:=install-nokeys};
 : ${PKG_OPENSSH_MAKEFLAGS_INSTALL_EXTRA:=STRIP_OPT=};