diff --git a/roles/fedora-web/candidate-registry/files/passwd-production b/roles/fedora-web/candidate-registry/files/passwd-production
deleted file mode 100644
index 4979d2dcf6..0000000000
--- a/roles/fedora-web/candidate-registry/files/passwd-production
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/C=US/ST=North Carolina/O=Fedora Project/OU=Fedora Builders/CN=containerbuild/emailAddress=buildsys@fedoraproject.org:xxj31ZMTZzkVA
diff --git a/roles/fedora-web/candidate-registry/files/passwd-staging b/roles/fedora-web/candidate-registry/files/passwd-staging
deleted file mode 100644
index d307d1f636..0000000000
--- a/roles/fedora-web/candidate-registry/files/passwd-staging
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/C=US/ST=North Carolina/L=Raleigh/O=Fedora Project/OU=INTERNAL certificates/CN=Fedora STAGING registry push:xxj31ZMTZzkVA
diff --git a/roles/fedora-web/candidate-registry/tasks/main.yml b/roles/fedora-web/candidate-registry/tasks/main.yml
index ced296c7ca..26616cc8a0 100644
--- a/roles/fedora-web/candidate-registry/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/fedora-web/candidate-registry/tasks/main.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
   - fedora-web/candidate-registry
 
 - name: Copy over the registry passwd
-  copy: src="passwd-{{env}}" dest=/etc/httpd/conf.d/candidate-registry.fedoraproject.org/passwd
+  copy: src="{{private}}/files/docker-registry/{{env}}/candidate-htpasswd" dest=/etc/httpd/conf.d/candidate-registry.fedoraproject.org/passwd
         owner=root group=root mode=0644
   notify:
   - reload proxyhttpd