diff --git a/lib/Makefile.am b/lib/Makefile.am
index 96dfefe2..bfe13c33 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.am
+++ b/lib/Makefile.am
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ libshadow_la_SOURCES = \
 	stpecpy.h \
 	stpeprintf.c \
 	stpeprintf.h \
+	strncpy.h \
 	strtcpy.c \
 	strtcpy.h \
 	strtoday.c \
diff --git a/lib/strncpy.h b/lib/strncpy.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fc6fcc96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/strncpy.h
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ */
+
+
+#ifndef SHADOW_INCLUDE_LIB_STRNCPY_H_
+#define SHADOW_INCLUDE_LIB_STRNCPY_H_
+
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "sizeof.h"
+
+
+#define STRNCPY(dst, src)  strncpy(dst, src, NITEMS(dst))
+
+
+#endif  // include guard