diff --git a/shadow-4.0.18.1-bflg.patch b/shadow-4.0.18.1-bflg.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d23faa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shadow-4.0.18.1-bflg.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff -up shadow-4.0.18.1/src/useradd.c.bflg shadow-4.0.18.1/src/useradd.c
+--- shadow-4.0.18.1/src/useradd.c.bflg	2008-04-08 14:50:43.000000000 +0200
++++ shadow-4.0.18.1/src/useradd.c	2008-04-08 14:50:53.000000000 +0200
+@@ -1051,9 +1051,6 @@ static void process_flags (int argc, cha
+ 				     long_options, NULL)) != -1) {
+ 			switch (c) {
+ 			case 'b':
+-				if (!Dflg)
+-					usage ();
+-
+ 				if (!VALID (optarg)
+ 				    || optarg[0] != '/') {
+ 					fprintf (stderr,
diff --git a/shadow-utils.spec b/shadow-utils.spec
index 59df958..87a7f0c 100644
--- a/shadow-utils.spec
+++ b/shadow-utils.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Summary: Utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files
 Name: shadow-utils
 Version: 4.0.18.1
-Release: 21%{?dist}
+Release: 22%{?dist}
 Epoch: 2
 URL: http://shadow.pld.org.pl/
 Source0: ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/shadow-%{version}.tar.bz2
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Patch14: shadow-4.0.18.1-findNewUidOnce.patch
 Patch15: shadow-4.0.18.1-groupLoop.patch
 Patch16: shadow-4.0.18.1-mtime.patch
 Patch17: shadow-4.1.0-segfault.patch
+Patch18: shadow-4.0.18.1-bflg.patch
 
 License: BSD
 Group: System Environment/Base
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ cp %{SOURCE3} lib/nscd.c
 %patch15 -p1 -b .groupLoop
 %patch16 -p1 -b .mtime
 %patch17 -p1 -b .segfault
+%patch18 -p1 -b .bflg
 
 rm po/*.gmo
 rm po/stamp-po
@@ -218,6 +220,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_mandir}/man8/faillog.8*
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Apr 08 2008 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> 2:4.0.18.1-22
+- fix "-b" option (#441460)
+
 * Tue Feb 19 2008 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> 2:4.0.18.1-21
 - fix groupmems segmentation fault (#430813)