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diff --git a/meta/classes/useradd_base.bbclass b/meta/classes/useradd_base.bbclass
index 7f5b9b7219..5e1c699118 100644
--- a/meta/classes/useradd_base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/useradd_base.bbclass
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+#
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
# This bbclass provides basic functionality for user/group settings.
# This bbclass is intended to be inherited by useradd.bbclass and
# extrausers.bbclass.
@@ -154,7 +160,7 @@ perform_passwd_expire () {
local username=`echo "$opts" | awk '{ print $NF }'`
local user_exists="`grep "^$username:" $rootdir/etc/passwd || true`"
if test "x$user_exists" != "x"; then
- eval flock -x $rootdir${sysconfdir} -c \"$PSEUDO sed -i \''s/^\('$username':[^:]*\):[^:]*:/\1:0:/'\' $rootdir/etc/shadow \" || true
+ eval flock -x $rootdir${sysconfdir} -c \"$PSEUDO sed --follow-symlinks -i \''s/^\('$username':[^:]*\):[^:]*:/\1:0:/'\' $rootdir/etc/shadow \" || true
local passwd_lastchanged="`grep "^$username:" $rootdir/etc/shadow | cut -d: -f3`"
if test "x$passwd_lastchanged" != "x0"; then
bbfatal "${PN}: passwd --expire operation did not succeed."