diff --git a/tests/scripts/test027-emptydn b/tests/scripts/test027-emptydn
index b963bcf4f5..e96f9cb76a 100755
--- a/tests/scripts/test027-emptydn
+++ b/tests/scripts/test027-emptydn
@@ -12,12 +12,6 @@
 ## top-level directory of the distribution or, alternatively, at
 ## <http://www.OpenLDAP.org/license.html>.
 
-# FIXME: temporary! bdb doesn't work
-if test "$BACKEND" != "ldbm" ; then
-	echo "Test does not support $BACKEND"
-	exit 0
-fi
-
 echo "running defines.sh"
 . $SRCDIR/scripts/defines.sh