diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c89acb8d..8e978cf5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADER([shadow.h],,[AC_MSG_ERROR([You need a libc with shadow.h])])
 
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(arc4random_buf futimes \
 	getentropy getrandom getspnam getusershell \
-	getutent initgroups lckpwdf lutimes \
+	initgroups lckpwdf lutimes \
 	setgroups updwtmp updwtmpx innetgr \
 	getspnam_r \
 	memset_explicit explicit_bzero)
diff --git a/lib/Makefile.am b/lib/Makefile.am
index b677697a..5d76205c 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.am
+++ b/lib/Makefile.am
@@ -66,8 +66,7 @@ libshadow_la_SOURCES = \
 	shadowio.c \
 	shadowio.h \
 	shadowmem.c \
-	spawn.c \
-	utent.c
+	spawn.c
 
 if WITH_TCB
 libshadow_la_SOURCES += tcbfuncs.c tcbfuncs.h
diff --git a/lib/utent.c b/lib/utent.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 988201b2..00000000
--- a/lib/utent.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 1993 - 1994, Julianne Frances Haugh
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 1996 - 1998, Marek Michałkiewicz
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2005       , Tomasz Kłoczko
- *
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
- */
-
-#include <config.h>
-
-#ifndef	HAVE_GETUTENT
-
-#include "defines.h"
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <fcntl.h>
-#include <utmp.h>
-
-#ifndef	lint
-static char rcsid[] = "$Id$";
-#endif
-
-static int utmp_fd = -1;
-static struct utmp utmp_buf;
-
-/*
- * setutent - open or rewind the utmp file
- */
-
-void setutent (void)
-{
-	if (utmp_fd == -1)
-		if ((utmp_fd = open (_UTMP_FILE, O_RDWR)) == -1)
-			utmp_fd = open (_UTMP_FILE, O_RDONLY);
-
-	if (utmp_fd != -1)
-		lseek (utmp_fd, (off_t) 0L, SEEK_SET);
-}
-
-/*
- * endutent - close the utmp file
- */
-
-void endutent (void)
-{
-	if (utmp_fd != -1)
-		close (utmp_fd);
-
-	utmp_fd = -1;
-}
-
-/*
- * getutent - get the next record from the utmp file
- */
-
-struct utmp *getutent (void)
-{
-	if (utmp_fd == -1)
-		setutent ();
-
-	if (utmp_fd == -1)
-		return 0;
-
-	if (read (utmp_fd, &utmp_buf, sizeof utmp_buf) != sizeof utmp_buf)
-		return 0;
-
-	return &utmp_buf;
-}
-#else
-extern int ISO_C_forbids_an_empty_translation_unit;
-#endif
diff --git a/po/POTFILES.in b/po/POTFILES.in
index 61b79dbd..568d51be 100644
--- a/po/POTFILES.in
+++ b/po/POTFILES.in
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ lib/shadowio.c
 lib/shadowmem.c
 lib/spawn.c
 lib/tcbfuncs.c
-lib/utent.c
 libmisc/addgrps.c
 libmisc/age.c
 libmisc/audit_help.c