diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/copr-front b/inventory/group_vars/copr-front
index f7c7d687e8..7c9a288117 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/copr-front
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/copr-front
@@ -12,7 +12,3 @@ csi_purpose: Provide a publicly accessible frontend for 3rd party packages (copr
 csi_relationship: |
   - This host provides the frontend part of copr only.
   - It's the point of contact between end users and the copr build system (backend, package singer)
-
-# We set this here because we have a task that uses become_user where the user does not
-# have perms to write to their homedir. So we cannot use the default ~user/.ansible tmpdir. 
-ansible_remote_tmp: /tmp/.ansible-${USER}/tmp
diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/copr-front-stg b/inventory/group_vars/copr-front-stg
index f1d01063af..27a5e4194b 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/copr-front-stg
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/copr-front-stg
@@ -7,7 +7,3 @@ csi_purpose: Provide the testing environment of copr's frontend
 csi_relationship: This host is the testing environment for copr's web interface
 
 copr_mbs_cli_login: Y29wcg==##vtvvikhcjncwkfkdcssv
-
-# We set this here because we have a task that uses become_user where the user does not
-# have perms to write to their homedir. So we cannot use the default ~user/.ansible tmpdir. 
-ansible_remote_tmp: /tmp/.ansible-${USER}/tmp
diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/openqa b/inventory/group_vars/openqa
index d5a9d5a38e..7654a57186 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/openqa
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/openqa
@@ -72,7 +72,3 @@ fedmsg_certs:
 
 # we need this to log with fedmsg-logger
 fedmsg_active: True
-
-# We set this here because we have a task that uses become_user where the user does not
-# have perms to write to their homedir. So we cannot use the default ~user/.ansible tmpdir. 
-ansible_remote_tmp: /tmp/.ansible-${USER}/tmp
diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/openqa-stg b/inventory/group_vars/openqa-stg
index 8bd68b19e6..971a34887f 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/openqa-stg
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/openqa-stg
@@ -87,7 +87,3 @@ fedmsg_active: True
 
 # makes sure it sends stg not prod fedmsgs
 fedmsg_env: stg
-
-# We set this here because we have a task that uses become_user where the user does not
-# have perms to write to their homedir. So we cannot use the default ~user/.ansible tmpdir. 
-#ansible_remote_tmp: /tmp/.ansible-${USER}/tmp
diff --git a/roles/ansible-server/templates/ansible.cfg.j2 b/roles/ansible-server/templates/ansible.cfg.j2
index 7bb27a3aa3..bff0fd5a43 100644
--- a/roles/ansible-server/templates/ansible.cfg.j2
+++ b/roles/ansible-server/templates/ansible.cfg.j2
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ inventory       = {{ ansible_base }}/ansible/inventory
 #library        = /usr/share/my_modules/
 library         = {{ ansible_base }}/ansible/library:/usr/share/ansible
 #module_utils   = /usr/share/my_module_utils/
-#remote_tmp     = ~/.ansible/tmp
+remote_tmp      = /tmp
 #local_tmp      = ~/.ansible/tmp
 #forks          = 5
 forks           = 150