diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager.bb b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager.bb
index 746daeb..ba3399c 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager.bb
@@ -71,7 +71,10 @@
     ${sbindir}/obmc-flash-bmc \
     /usr/local \
     "
-FILES_${PN}-sync += "${sbindir}/phosphor-sync-software-manager"
+FILES_${PN}-sync += " \
+    ${sbindir}/phosphor-sync-software-manager \
+    ${sysconfdir}/synclist \
+    "
 DBUS_SERVICE_${PN}-version += "xyz.openbmc_project.Software.Version.service"
 DBUS_SERVICE_${PN}-download-mgr += "xyz.openbmc_project.Software.Download.service"
 DBUS_SERVICE_${PN}-updater += "xyz.openbmc_project.Software.BMC.Updater.service"
@@ -103,10 +106,16 @@
 SYSTEMD_SUBSTITUTIONS += "RW_SIZE:${BMC_RW_SIZE}:obmc-flash-bmc-ubirw.service"
 
 SRC_URI += "file://obmc-flash-bmc"
+SRC_URI += "file://synclist"
 do_install_append() {
     install -d ${D}${sbindir}
     install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/obmc-flash-bmc ${D}${sbindir}/obmc-flash-bmc
     install -d ${D}/usr/local
+
+    if [ -f ${WORKDIR}/build/phosphor-sync-software-manager ]; then
+        install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}
+        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/synclist ${D}${sysconfdir}/synclist
+    fi
 }
 
 SRC_URI += "git://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-bmc-code-mgmt"
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager/synclist b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager/synclist
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8213ce6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager/synclist
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/etc/dropbear/
+/etc/group
+/etc/gshadow
+/etc/hostname
+/etc/machine-id
+/etc/passwd
+/etc/shadow
+/etc/ssl/
+/etc/ssl/certs/nginx/
+/etc/ssl/private/
+/etc/systemd/network/