diff --git a/security/freeradius/freeradius.conf b/security/freeradius/freeradius.conf
index 4be1ddf34..92f8179b3 100644
--- a/security/freeradius/freeradius.conf
+++ b/security/freeradius/freeradius.conf
@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@ export LDFLAGS
 var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--with-system-libtool"
 var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--with-system-libltdl"
 
-# disabling rlm_unix module atm because we've some problem to detect libshadow.so
-# 2005-09-20 morfoh
-var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--without-rlm_unix"
-
 var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--with-large-files --disable-ltdl-install --disable-static"
 
 if pkginstalled openldap; then