diff --git a/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml b/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml
index 56b2797fe2..3c678751f1 100644
--- a/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml
@@ -38,7 +38,3 @@
 
 - name: create /var/log/taskotron for task logfiles
   file: path=/var/log/taskotron state=directory owner={{ slave_user }} group={{ slave_user }} mode=1755
-
-- name: hotfix change to config_defaults for testing
-  when: deployment_type == 'dev'
-  replace: dest=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libtaskotron/config_defaults.py regexp='\s+fas_password = None.*$' replace="    fas_password = ''"