diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/images/obmc-phosphor-initramfs.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/images/obmc-phosphor-initramfs.bb
index b68048a..d77f92c 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/images/obmc-phosphor-initramfs.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/images/obmc-phosphor-initramfs.bb
@@ -18,4 +18,6 @@
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "0"
 
+PACKAGE_INSTALL_remove = "shadow"
+PACKAGE_EXCLUDE = "shadow"
 BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "busybox-syslog"