diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/accountsservice/Add-nixbld-to-user-blacklist.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/accountsservice/Add-nixbld-to-user-blacklist.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f5d9e5695026..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/accountsservice/Add-nixbld-to-user-blacklist.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-From e069102365a9ff03822667f435e662f938e8d768 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Alexander Ried <ried@mytum.de>
-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 12:49:48 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Add nixbld* to user blacklist
-
----
- src/user-classify.c | 4 ++++
- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/src/user-classify.c b/src/user-classify.c
-index 69e6809..0e152b6 100644
---- a/src/user-classify.c
-+++ b/src/user-classify.c
-@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ user_classify_is_blacklisted (const char *username)
-                 return TRUE;
-         }
- 
-+        if (g_str_has_prefix (username, "nixbld")) {
-+                return TRUE;
-+        }
-+
-         return FALSE;
- }
- 
--- 
-2.7.4
-
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/accountsservice/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/accountsservice/default.nix
index 2dc6b57c339f..1a49913727d8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/accountsservice/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/accountsservice/default.nix
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "accountsservice-${version}";
-  version = "0.6.42";
+  version = "0.6.43";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/accountsservice/accountsservice-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "0zh0kjpdc631qh36plcgpwvnmh9wj8l5cki3aw5r09w6y7198r75";
+    sha256 = "1k6n9079001sgcwlkq0bz6mkn4m8y4dwf6hs1qm85swcld5ajfzd";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ pkgconfig glib intltool libtool makeWrapper
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patches = [
     ./no-create-dirs.patch
-    ./Add-nixbld-to-user-blacklist.patch
     ./Disable-methods-that-change-files-in-etc.patch
   ];