# .ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp readonly file systems

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tmp-ansible-tmp-readonly-file-systems/32295>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tmp-ansible-tmp-readonly-file-systems/32295 "2020-02-21T15:04:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tmp-ansible-tmp-readonly-file-systems/32295/1 "2020-02-21T15:04:12Z")

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serverA | UNREACHABLE! =\> {  
“changed”: false,  
“msg”: “Authentication or permission failure. In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the target directory. Consider changing the remote tmp path in ansible.cfg to a path rooted in "/tmp". Failed command was: ( umask 77 && mkdir -p "`echo /home/ansys/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1582296179.54-231695993803993`" && echo ansible-tmp-1582296179.54-231695993803993="`echo /home/ansys/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1582296179.54-231695993803993`" ), exited with result 1”,  
“unreachable”: true

I have tried to delete the file temp directories manually and it says readonly file system…