diff --git a/pkgs/servers/portmap/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/portmap/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..df50c332029
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/portmap/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, lib, tcpWrapper
+, daemonUser, daemonUID, daemonGID }:
+
+assert daemonUser -> (!daemonUID && !daemonGID);
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "portmap-6.0";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://neil.brown.name/portmap/${name}.tgz";
+    sha256 = "1pj13ll4mbfwjwpn3fbg03qq9im6v2i8fcpa3ffp4viykz9j1j02";
+  };
+
+  patchPhase = ''
+    substituteInPlace "Makefile" --replace "/usr/share" "" \
+      --replace "install -o root -g root" "install"
+  '';
+
+  makeFlags =
+   lib.concatStringsSep " "
+     (lib.optional daemonUser "RPCUSER=\"${daemonUser}\""
+      ++ lib.optional daemonUID "DAEMON_UID=${daemonUID}"
+      ++ lib.optional daemonGID "DAEMON_GID=${daemonGID}");
+
+  buildInputs = [ tcpWrapper ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    ensureDir "$out/sbin" && ensureDir "$out/man/man8" && \
+    make install BASEDIR=$out
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = ''portmap is a part of the ONC RPC software collection
+                    implementing remote procedure calls (RPCs) between
+		    computer programs.  It is widely used by NFS and NIS,
+		    among others.'';
+    homepage = http://neil.brown.name/portmap/;
+    license = "BSD";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 19adb211135..2dcb1ee8619 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3656,6 +3656,15 @@ rec {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv apacheHttpd jdk;
   };
 
+  portmap = import ../servers/portmap {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv lib tcpWrapper;
+
+    # This settings should typically be defined by NixOS Upstart job.
+    daemonUser = false;
+    daemonGID = false;
+    daemonUID = false;
+  };
+
   mysql4 = import ../servers/sql/mysql {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv ncurses zlib perl;
     ps = procps; /* !!! Linux only */