diff --git a/nfs-utils.changes b/nfs-utils.changes
index 6a658ed..ebf1747 100644
--- a/nfs-utils.changes
+++ b/nfs-utils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Dec 11 03:18:18 UTC 2024 - William Brown <william.brown@suse.com>
+
+- Require system-user-nobody for nfs-client as the statd user relies
+  on `nogroup` from this package
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Oct 29 10:05:55 UTC 2024 - Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
 
diff --git a/nfs-utils.spec b/nfs-utils.spec
index cb1699f..5d92d61 100644
--- a/nfs-utils.spec
+++ b/nfs-utils.spec
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ Group:          Productivity/Networking/NFS
 Requires:       keyutils
 Requires:       netcfg
 Requires:       rpcbind
+# The statd user relies on 'nogroup' from system-user-nobody
+Requires:       system-user-nobody
 Requires(post): %fillup_prereq
 Requires(pre):  permissions
 Obsoletes:      nfs-utils < 1.1.0