diff --git a/0003-fix-option-type-for-minimum-uid.patch b/0003-fix-option-type-for-minimum-uid.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27c0073
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0003-fix-option-type-for-minimum-uid.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+From a8f368c34e826f76d1244fed5095a1615c986b59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Alexey Shabalin <shaba@altlinux.org>
+Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 18:46:26 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH 2/3] fix option type for minimum uid
+
+---
+ meson.build       | 2 +-
+ meson_options.txt | 2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index 1f75a5b..57f30a5 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ config_h.set_quoted('ADMIN_GROUP', admin_group)
+ config_h.set_quoted('EXTRA_ADMIN_GROUPS', extra_admin_groups)
+ 
+ config_h.set('ENABLE_USER_HEURISTICS', get_option('user_heuristics'))
+-config_h.set_quoted('MINIMUM_UID', get_option('minimum_uid'))
++config_h.set('MINIMUM_UID', get_option('minimum_uid'))
+ 
+ # GDM
+ gdm_conf_file = get_option('gdmconffile')
+diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
+index 878bdd7..12e2f6b 100644
+--- a/meson_options.txt
++++ b/meson_options.txt
+@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ option('gdmconffile', type: 'string', value: '/etc/gdm/custom.conf', description
+ option('admin_group', type: 'string', value: '', description: 'Set group for administrative accounts')
+ option('user_heuristics', type: 'boolean', value: true, description: 'Enable heuristics for guessing system vs. human users in the range 500-minimum-uid')
+ option('extra_admin_groups', type: 'array', value: [], description: 'Comma-separated list of extra groups that administrator users are part of')
+-option('minimum_uid', type: 'string', value: '1000', description: 'Set minimum uid for human users')
++option('minimum_uid', type: 'integer', value: 1000, description: 'Set minimum uid for human users')
+ 
+ option('systemd', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'Use systemd')
+ option('elogind', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'Use elogind')
+-- 
+2.19.1
+
diff --git a/accountsservice.spec b/accountsservice.spec
index 07bd676..2dcf35e 100644
--- a/accountsservice.spec
+++ b/accountsservice.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Name:           accountsservice
 Version:        0.6.54
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Release:        4%{?dist}
 Summary:        D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information
 License:        GPLv3+
 URL:            https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/AccountsService/
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ URL:            https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/AccountsService/
 #VCS: git:git://git.freedesktop.org/accountsservice
 Source0:        http://www.freedesktop.org/software/accountsservice/accountsservice-%{version}.tar.xz
 
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646418
+Patch1: 0003-fix-option-type-for-minimum-uid.patch
+
 BuildRequires:  gettext-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(dbus-1)
 BuildRequires:  glib2-devel
@@ -98,6 +101,10 @@ files needed to build applications that use accountsservice-libs.
 %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/libaccountsservice/*
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jan 21 2019 Alexandru-Sever Horin <alex.sever.h@gmail.com> - 0.6.54-4
+- Add patch from upstream to fix UID detection
+  Resolves: #1646418
+
 * Thu Jan 17 2019 Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> - 0.6.54-3
 - Explicitly enable systemd support (#1576903) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)