diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/nf/nfs-ganesha/allow-bypassing-dbus-pkg-config-test.patch b/pkgs/by-name/nf/nfs-ganesha/allow-bypassing-dbus-pkg-config-test.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0f83ba51870c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/nf/nfs-ganesha/allow-bypassing-dbus-pkg-config-test.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
+index 73276dff6..94027f5cb 100644
+--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -974,21 +974,27 @@ endif(USE_EFENCE)
+
+ gopt_test(USE_DBUS)
+ if(USE_DBUS)
+-  find_package(PkgConfig)
+-  # pkg_check_modules doesn't fatal error on REQUIRED, so handle it ourselves
+-  pkg_check_modules(DBUS ${USE_DBUS_REQUIRED} dbus-1)
+-  if(NOT DBUS_FOUND)
+-    if(USE_DBUS_REQUIRED)
+-      message(FATAL_ERROR "Cannot find DBUS libs but requested on command line")
+-    else(USE_DBUS_REQUIRED)
+-      message(WARNING "Cannot find DBUS libs. Disabling DBUS support")
+-      set(USE_DBUS OFF)
+-    endif(USE_DBUS_REQUIRED)
+-  else(NOT DBUS_FOUND)
++  if(DBUS_NO_PKGCONFIG)
+     set(SYSTEM_LIBRARIES ${DBUS_LIBRARIES} ${SYSTEM_LIBRARIES})
+     LIST(APPEND CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH ${DBUS_LIBRARY_DIRS})
+     link_directories (${DBUS_LIBRARY_DIRS})
+-  endif(NOT DBUS_FOUND)
++  else(DBUS_NO_PKGCONFIG)
++    find_package(PkgConfig)
++    # pkg_check_modules doesn't fatal error on REQUIRED, so handle it ourselves
++    pkg_check_modules(DBUS ${USE_DBUS_REQUIRED} dbus-1)
++    if(NOT DBUS_FOUND)
++      if(USE_DBUS_REQUIRED)
++        message(FATAL_ERROR "Cannot find DBUS libs but requested on command line")
++      else(USE_DBUS_REQUIRED)
++        message(WARNING "Cannot find DBUS libs. Disabling DBUS support")
++        set(USE_DBUS OFF)
++      endif(USE_DBUS_REQUIRED)
++    else(NOT DBUS_FOUND)
++      set(SYSTEM_LIBRARIES ${DBUS_LIBRARIES} ${SYSTEM_LIBRARIES})
++      LIST(APPEND CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH ${DBUS_LIBRARY_DIRS})
++      link_directories (${DBUS_LIBRARY_DIRS})
++    endif(NOT DBUS_FOUND)
++  endif(DBUS_NO_PKGCONFIG)
+ endif(USE_DBUS)
+
+ if(USE_CB_SIMULATOR AND NOT USE_DBUS)
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/nf/nfs-ganesha/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/nf/nfs-ganesha/package.nix
index a57e5daa8b38..afeff6439196 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/nf/nfs-ganesha/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/nf/nfs-ganesha/package.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
   krb5,
   xfsprogs,
   jemalloc,
-  dbus,
   libcap,
   ntirpc,
   liburcu,
@@ -18,6 +17,8 @@
   acl,
   useCeph ? false,
   ceph,
+  useDbus ? true,
+  dbus,
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
@@ -37,6 +38,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     hash = "sha256-OHGmEzHu8y/TPQ70E2sicaLtNgvlf/bRq8JRs6S1tpY=";
   };
 
+  patches = lib.optional useDbus ./allow-bypassing-dbus-pkg-config-test.patch;
+
   preConfigure = "cd src";
 
   cmakeFlags = [
@@ -52,6 +55,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-DRADOS_URLS=ON"
     "-DUSE_FSAL_CEPH=ON"
     "-DUSE_FSAL_RGW=ON"
+  ]
+  ++ lib.optionals useDbus [
+    "-DUSE_DBUS=ON"
+    "-DDBUS_NO_PKGCONFIG=ON"
+    "-DDBUS_LIBRARY_DIRS=${dbus.lib}/lib"
+    "-DDBUS_INCLUDE_DIRS=${dbus.dev}/include/dbus-1.0\\;${dbus.lib}/lib/dbus-1.0/include"
+    "-DDBUS_LIBRARIES=dbus-1"
   ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
@@ -60,7 +70,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     bison
     flex
     sphinx
-  ];
+  ]
+  ++ lib.optional useDbus dbus.dev;
 
   buildInputs = [
     acl
@@ -91,6 +102,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   postInstall = ''
     install -Dm755 $src/src/tools/mount.9P $tools/bin/mount.9P
+  ''
+  + lib.optionalString useDbus ''
+    # Policy for D-Bus statistics interface
+    install -Dm644 $src/src/scripts/ganeshactl/org.ganesha.nfsd.conf $out/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.ganesha.nfsd.conf
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {