diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/google-compute-daemon/files/0001-feat-accounts-add-users-to-the-sudo-group-by-default.patch b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/google-compute-daemon/files/0001-feat-accounts-add-users-to-the-sudo-group-by-default.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9e17219811
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/google-compute-daemon/files/0001-feat-accounts-add-users-to-the-sudo-group-by-default.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From 6126db1c7c690d666b2389c4a918a4c4955c8e91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.co>
+Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:12:00 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] feat(accounts): add users to the sudo group by default
+
+On CoreOS the sudo group gets passwordless sudo. Add users to this
+group.
+---
+ google-daemon/usr/share/google/google_daemon/accounts.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/google-daemon/usr/share/google/google_daemon/accounts.py b/google-daemon/usr/share/google/google_daemon/accounts.py
+index 6f970c4..17cb2ce 100755
+--- a/google-daemon/usr/share/google/google_daemon/accounts.py
++++ b/google-daemon/usr/share/google/google_daemon/accounts.py
+@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class Accounts(object):
+     self.urllib2 = urllib2_module
+ 
+     self.default_user_groups = self.GroupsThatExist(
+-        ['adm', 'video', 'dip', 'plugdev'])
++        ['adm', 'video', 'dip', 'plugdev', 'sudo'])
+ 
+   def CreateUser(self, username, ssh_keys):
+     """Create username on the system, with authorized ssh_keys."""
+-- 
+1.8.5.2 (Apple Git-48)
+
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/google-compute-daemon/google-compute-daemon-1.1.1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/google-compute-daemon/google-compute-daemon-1.1.1-r1.ebuild
similarity index 91%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/google-compute-daemon/google-compute-daemon-1.1.1.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/google-compute-daemon/google-compute-daemon-1.1.1-r1.ebuild
index ddc869b529..d1c7236874 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/google-compute-daemon/google-compute-daemon-1.1.1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/google-compute-daemon/google-compute-daemon-1.1.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/0001-Fixes-authorized_keys-file-permissions.patch
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/0001-fix-google-daemon-use-for-the-passwd-not.patch
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/0001-hack-address_manager-use-CoreOS-names-and-locations.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/0001-feat-accounts-add-users-to-the-sudo-group-by-default.patch
 }
 
 src_install() {