diff --git a/config/config.go b/config/config.go
index 4c65bf74..7f2a5a15 100644
--- a/config/config.go
+++ b/config/config.go
@@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ type SystemConfiguration struct {
 
 		Uid int `yaml:"uid"`
 		Gid int `yaml:"gid"`
+
+		// Passwd controls weather a passwd file is mounted in the container
+		// at /etc/passwd to resolve missing user issues
+		Passwd     bool   `json:"mount_passwd" yaml:"mount_passwd" default:"true"`
+		PasswdFile string `json:"passwd_file" yaml:"passwd_file" default:"/etc/pterodactyl/passwd"`
 	} `yaml:"user"`
 
 	// The amount of time in seconds that can elapse before a server's disk space calculation is
@@ -526,6 +531,19 @@ func ConfigureDirectories() error {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	log.WithField("filepath", _config.System.User.PasswdFile).Debug("ensuring passwd file exists")
+	if passwd, err := os.Create(_config.System.User.PasswdFile); err != nil {
+		return err
+	} else {
+		// the WriteFile method returns an error if unsuccessful
+		err := os.WriteFile(passwd.Name(), []byte(fmt.Sprintf("container:x:%d:%d::/home/container:/usr/sbin/nologin", _config.System.User.Uid, _config.System.User.Gid)), 0644)
+		// handle this error
+		if err != nil {
+			// print it out
+			fmt.Println(err)
+		}
+	}
+
 	// There are a non-trivial number of users out there whose data directories are actually a
 	// symlink to another location on the disk. If we do not resolve that final destination at this
 	// point things will appear to work, but endless errors will be encountered when we try to
diff --git a/server/mounts.go b/server/mounts.go
index 97c80946..9d2d126f 100644
--- a/server/mounts.go
+++ b/server/mounts.go
@@ -29,6 +29,18 @@ func (s *Server) Mounts() []environment.Mount {
 		},
 	}
 
+	// Mount passwd file if set to true
+	if config.Get().System.User.Passwd {
+		passwdMount := environment.Mount{
+			Default:  true,
+			Target:   "/etc/passwd",
+			Source:   config.Get().System.User.PasswdFile,
+			ReadOnly: true,
+		}
+
+		m = append(m, passwdMount)
+	}
+
 	// Also include any of this server's custom mounts when returning them.
 	return append(m, s.customMounts()...)
 }