diff --git a/include/Makemodule.am b/include/Makemodule.am
index be94f8a87..48a19541e 100644
--- a/include/Makemodule.am
+++ b/include/Makemodule.am
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ dist_noinst_HEADERS += \
 	include/pt-sgi.h \
 	include/pt-sun.h \
 	include/randutils.h \
-	include/readutmp.h \
 	include/rpmatch.h \
 	include/setproctitle.h \
 	include/statfs_magic.h \
diff --git a/include/readutmp.h b/include/readutmp.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 93251eac1..000000000
--- a/include/readutmp.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-/* Declarations for GNU's read utmp module.
-
-   Copyright (C) 1992-2007, 2009-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
-   (at your option) any later version.
-
-   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-   GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
-
-/* Written by jla; revised by djm */
-
-#ifndef READUTMP_H
-#define READUTMP_H
-
-#include <sys/types.h>
-#include <utmp.h>
-
-int read_utmp (char const *file, size_t *n_entries, struct utmp **utmp_buf);
-
-#endif /* READUTMP_H */
diff --git a/lib/Makemodule.am b/lib/Makemodule.am
index 566c527a0..6ef69570f 100644
--- a/lib/Makemodule.am
+++ b/lib/Makemodule.am
@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ libcommon_la_SOURCES = \
 	lib/timeutils.c \
 	lib/ttyutils.c \
 	lib/exec_shell.c \
-	lib/strv.c \
-	lib/readutmp.c
+	lib/strv.c
 
 if LINUX
 libcommon_la_SOURCES += \
diff --git a/lib/readutmp.c b/lib/readutmp.c
deleted file mode 100644
index b11e9a4d2..000000000
--- a/lib/readutmp.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-/* GNU's read utmp module.
-
-	 Copyright (C) 1992-2001, 2003-2006, 2009-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-	 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-	 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-	 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
-	 (at your option) any later version.
-
-	 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-	 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-	 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	See the
-	 GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-	 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-	 along with this program.	If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.	*/
-
-/* Written by jla; revised by djm */
-/* extracted for util-linux by ooprala */
-
-#include <errno.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
-
-#include <sys/types.h>
-#include <sys/stat.h>
-#include <signal.h>
-#include <stdbool.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <stdint.h>
-
-#include "xalloc.h"
-#include "readutmp.h"
-
-/* Read the utmp entries corresponding to file FILE into freshly-
-	 malloc'd storage, set *UTMP_BUF to that pointer, set *N_ENTRIES to
-	 the number of entries, and return zero.	If there is any error,
-	 return -1, setting errno, and don't modify the parameters.
-	 If OPTIONS & READ_UTMP_CHECK_PIDS is nonzero, omit entries whose
-	 process-IDs do not currently exist.	*/
-int
-read_utmp (char const *file, size_t *n_entries, struct utmp **utmp_buf)
-{
-	size_t n_read = 0;
-	size_t n_alloc = 0;
-	struct utmp *utmp = NULL;
-	struct utmp *u;
-
-	/* Ignore the return value for now.
-		 Solaris' utmpname returns 1 upon success -- which is contrary
-		 to what the GNU libc version does.	In addition, older GNU libc
-		 versions are actually void.	 */
-	utmpname(file);
-
-	setutent();
-
-	errno = 0;
-	while ((u = getutent()) != NULL) {
-		if (n_read == n_alloc) {
-			n_alloc += 32;
-			utmp = xrealloc(utmp, n_alloc * sizeof (struct utmp));
-			if (!utmp)
-				return -1;
-		}
-		utmp[n_read++] = *u;
-	}
-	if (!u && errno) {
-		free(utmp);
-		return -1;
-	}
-
-	endutent();
-
-	*n_entries = n_read;
-	*utmp_buf = utmp;
-
-	return 0;
-}
diff --git a/login-utils/lslogins.c b/login-utils/lslogins.c
index 48ba6d8ad..b56efd476 100644
--- a/login-utils/lslogins.c
+++ b/login-utils/lslogins.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/syslog.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
 #include <pwd.h>
 #include <grp.h>
 #include <shadow.h>
@@ -35,7 +36,6 @@
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <err.h>
 #include <limits.h>
-
 #include <search.h>
 
 #include <libsmartcols.h>
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@
 #include "optutils.h"
 #include "pathnames.h"
 #include "logindefs.h"
-#include "readutmp.h"
 #include "procutils.h"
 
 /*
@@ -476,6 +475,37 @@ static struct utmp *get_last_btmp(struct lslogins_control *ctl, const char *user
 
 }
 
+static int read_utmp(char const *file, size_t *nents, struct utmp **res)
+{
+	size_t n_read = 0, n_alloc = 0;
+	struct utmp *utmp = NULL, *u;
+
+	if (utmpname(file) < 0)
+		return -errno;
+
+	setutent();
+	errno = 0;
+
+	while ((u = getutent()) != NULL) {
+		if (n_read == n_alloc) {
+			n_alloc += 32;
+			utmp = xrealloc(utmp, n_alloc * sizeof (struct utmp));
+		}
+		utmp[n_read++] = *u;
+	}
+	if (!u && errno) {
+		free(utmp);
+		return -errno;
+	}
+
+	endutent();
+
+	*nents = n_read;
+	*res = utmp;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int parse_wtmp(struct lslogins_control *ctl, char *path)
 {
 	int rc = 0;