diff --git a/meta-phosphor/classes/obmc-phosphor-image.bbclass b/meta-phosphor/classes/obmc-phosphor-image.bbclass
index 8306394..9d4dbc8 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/classes/obmc-phosphor-image.bbclass
+++ b/meta-phosphor/classes/obmc-phosphor-image.bbclass
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@
         i2c-tools \
         obmc-console \
         pam-plugin-access \
-        pam-ipmi \
         ${OBMC_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL} \
         ffdc \
         rsync \
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-net_git.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-net_git.bb
index 969032c..162af96 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-net_git.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-net_git.bb
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 DEPENDS += "systemd"
 DEPENDS += "phosphor-ipmi-host"
 
+RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "pam-ipmi"
+
 SRC_URI += "git://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-net-ipmid"
 SRCREV = "f6e7230d9cd45772a4237c024e6c3abf9b4cf7eb"