diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libutempter/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libutempter/default.nix
index 6c0406bf4013..3b63ef9386b3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libutempter/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libutempter/default.nix
@@ -4,17 +4,19 @@ with lib;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "libutempter";
-  version = "1.1.6";
+  version = "1.2.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://ubuntu/pool/main/libu/libutempter/libutempter_${version}.orig.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "15y3xbgznjxnfmix4xg3bwmqdvghdw7slbhazb0ybmyf65gmd65q";
+    url = "http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/ldv/utempter/libutempter-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "sha256-ln/vNy85HeUBhDrYdXDGz12r2WUfAPF4MJD7wSsqNMs=";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ glib ];
 
   patches = [ ./exec_path.patch ];
 
+  patchFlags = [ "-p2" ];
+
   prePatch = ''
     substituteInPlace Makefile --replace 2711 0711
   '';
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ];
 
   meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/altlinux/libutempter";
     description = "Interface for terminal emulators such as screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files";
     longDescription = ''
       The bundled utempter binary must be able to run as a user belonging to group utmp.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libutempter/exec_path.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/libutempter/exec_path.patch
index bd5f56611ef9..da3fe110fb67 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libutempter/exec_path.patch
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libutempter/exec_path.patch
@@ -1,19 +1,28 @@
-diff -ur libutempter-1.1.6/iface.c libutempter-1.1.6.patched/iface.c
---- libutempter-1.1.6/iface.c	2010-11-04 18:14:53.000000000 +0100
-+++ libutempter-1.1.6.patched/iface.c	2018-06-06 15:09:11.417755549 +0200
-@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@
+diff --git a/libutempter/iface.c b/libutempter/iface.c
+index 37c74a8..6f44c9a 100644
+--- a/libutempter/iface.c
++++ b/libutempter/iface.c
+@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
+        __result; }))
+ #endif
+ 
+-#define UTEMPTER_DEFAULT_PATHNAME	LIBEXECDIR "/utempter/utempter"
++#define UTEMPTER_DEFAULT_PATHNAME	"utempter"
+ 
+ static const char *utempter_pathname;
+ static int saved_fd = -1;
+@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ do_child(int master_fd, const char *path, char *const *argv)
  		_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  	}
  
 -	execv(path, argv);
+-	print_dbg("execv: %s", strerror(errno));
 +	execvp(path, argv);
- #ifdef	UTEMPTER_DEBUG
--	fprintf(stderr, "libutempter: execv: %s\n", strerror(errno));
-+	fprintf(stderr, "libutempter: execvp: %s\n", strerror(errno));
- #endif
++	print_dbg("execvp: %s", strerror(errno));
  
- 	while (EACCES == errno)
-@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
+ 	while (EACCES == errno) {
+ 		/* try saved group ID */
+@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ do_child(int master_fd, const char *path, char *const *argv)
  		if (setgid(sgid))
  			break;
  
@@ -21,5 +30,3 @@ diff -ur libutempter-1.1.6/iface.c libutempter-1.1.6.patched/iface.c
 +		(void) execvp(path, argv);
  		break;
  	}
- 
-Only in libutempter-1.1.6.patched: result
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/mosh/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/mosh/default.nix
index bea16b809d19..45ef93462aee 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/mosh/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/mosh/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   patches = [
     ./ssh_path.patch
     ./mosh-client_path.patch
-    ./utempter_path.patch
     # Fix build with bash-completion 2.10
     ./bash_completion_datadir.patch
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/mosh/utempter_path.patch b/pkgs/tools/networking/mosh/utempter_path.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a981708ffadf..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/mosh/utempter_path.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff -ur mosh-1.3.2/src/frontend/mosh-server.cc mosh-1.3.2.patched/src/frontend/mosh-server.cc
---- mosh-1.3.2/src/frontend/mosh-server.cc	2017-07-22 23:14:53.000000000 +0200
-+++ mosh-1.3.2.patched/src/frontend/mosh-server.cc	2018-06-06 10:45:50.725352804 +0200
-@@ -351,6 +351,10 @@
-     }
-   }
- 
-+#ifdef HAVE_UTEMPTER
-+    utempter_set_helper( "utempter" );
-+#endif
-+
-   try {
-     return run_server( desired_ip, desired_port, command_path, command_argv, colors, verbose, with_motd );
-   } catch ( const Network::NetworkException &e ) {