diff --git a/sssd.changes b/sssd.changes
index 978df20..a087d1e 100644
--- a/sssd.changes
+++ b/sssd.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jan 22 09:21:43 UTC 2025 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
+
+- Drop build dependency on ncsd, which has been deprecated
+  (boo#1239262).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jan 21 16:33:00 UTC 2025 - Samuel Cabrero <scabrero@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/sssd.spec b/sssd.spec
index df29625..ea82e01 100644
--- a/sssd.spec
+++ b/sssd.spec
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ BuildRequires:  libunistring-devel
 BuildRequires:  libxml2-tools
 BuildRequires:  libxslt-tools
 BuildRequires:  libopenssl-3-devel
-BuildRequires:  nscd
 BuildRequires:  nss_wrapper
 BuildRequires:  openldap2-devel
 BuildRequires:  pam-devel
@@ -417,9 +416,6 @@ Security Services Daemon (sssd).
 %autosetup -p1
 
 %build
-# help configure find nscd
-export PATH="$PATH:/usr/sbin"
-
 autoreconf -fiv
 %configure \
 	--with-db-path="%dbpath" \