diff --git a/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/elsa/0001-pam-use-common-auth-instead-of-system-auth.patch b/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/elsa/0001-pam-use-common-auth-instead-of-system-auth.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a9beea0b74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/elsa/0001-pam-use-common-auth-instead-of-system-auth.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From 27dc9147a822d69be90edd0d137b80c0c609d5d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:25:33 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] pam: use common-auth instead of system-auth
+
+Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com>
+---
+ PROTO/elsa/data/elsa |    8 ++++----
+ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/elsa b/data/elsa
+index 3476d55..47d29222 100644
+--- a/data/elsa
++++ b/data/elsa
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+ # File autogenerated by pamd_mimic in pam eclass
+ 
+ 
+-auth	include		system-auth
+-account	include		system-auth
+-password	include		system-auth
+-session	include		system-auth
++auth	include		common-auth
++account	include		common-account
++password	include		common-password
++session	include		common-session
+-- 
+1.7.8.rc3
+
diff --git a/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/elsa_svn.bb b/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/elsa_svn.bb
index 17af88665a..e2f6fd7b95 100644
--- a/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/elsa_svn.bb
+++ b/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/elsa_svn.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 SECTION = "e/apps"
 
 inherit e gettext
-SRC_URI = "${E_SVN}/trunk/PROTO;module=${SRCNAME};proto=http;scmdata=keep"
+SRC_URI = "${E_SVN}/trunk/PROTO;module=${SRCNAME};proto=http;scmdata=keep \
+  file://0001-pam-use-common-auth-instead-of-system-auth.patch \
+"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${SRCNAME}"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-edje-cc=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/edje_cc"