diff --git a/nixos/tests/accountsservice.nix b/nixos/tests/accountsservice.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..95da652b0a97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/accountsservice.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ ... }:
+
+{
+  name = "accountsservice";
+
+  nodes.machine =
+    { pkgs, ... }:
+    {
+      environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ jq ];
+
+      services.accounts-daemon.enable = true;
+
+      users.users.alice = {
+        isNormalUser = true;
+        description = "Alice";
+      };
+    };
+
+  testScript = ''
+    machine.start_job("accounts-daemon.service")
+    machine.wait_for_unit("accounts-daemon.service")
+    user = machine.succeed("busctl call -j org.freedesktop.Accounts /org/freedesktop/Accounts org.freedesktop.Accounts FindUserByName s alice | jq -j '.data[]'")
+    name = machine.succeed(f"busctl get-property -j org.freedesktop.Accounts {user} org.freedesktop.Accounts.User RealName | jq -j .data")
+    t.assertEqual(name, "Alice")
+  '';
+}
diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index 9d01b75516f7..ee77b071a1da 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ in
   # keep-sorted start case=no numeric=no block=yes
   _3proxy = runTest ./3proxy.nix;
   aaaaxy = runTest ./aaaaxy.nix;
+  accountsservice = runTest ./accountsservice.nix;
   acl = pkgs.callPackage ./acl.nix { };
   acme = import ./acme/default.nix {
     inherit runTest;
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ac/accountsservice/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ac/accountsservice/package.nix
index b184e5d0299e..c56da88ada7e 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ac/accountsservice/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ac/accountsservice/package.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   vala,
   gettext,
   libxcrypt,
+  nixosTests,
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
@@ -107,6 +108,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
       --replace-fail "run_command(['./generate-version.sh'], check: true).stdout().strip()" "'${finalAttrs.version}'"
   '';
 
+  passthru.tests = { inherit (nixosTests) accountsservice; };
+
   meta = {
     changelog = "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/releases/${finalAttrs.src.tag}";
     description = "D-Bus interface for user account query and manipulation";