diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 3965d4cfce8..1a16ce11479 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -1790,4 +1790,7 @@ self: super: {
     excludes = ["test/buildtest"];
   });
 
+  # workaround for https://github.com/peti/distribution-nixpkgs/issues/9
+  pam = super.pam.override { inherit (pkgs) pam; };
+
 } // import ./configuration-tensorflow.nix {inherit pkgs haskellLib;} self super
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
index 21d5934eed5..bf7121f180a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
@@ -8806,7 +8806,6 @@ broken-packages:
   - Paillier
   - pairing
   - palette
-  - pam
   - pan-os-syslog
   - panda
   - pandoc-citeproc