diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/stages/templater/helpers.ts b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/stages/templater/helpers.ts
index 7684735519..2bda4e0f80 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/stages/templater/helpers.ts
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/stages/templater/helpers.ts
@@ -77,24 +77,22 @@ export const runDockerContainer = async ({
   // volume sharing is done using NFS on Mac and actual mounts in Linux world.
   // So we set the user in the container as the same user and group id as the host.
   const User = `${process.getuid()}:${process.getgid()}`;
-  console.warn('running this new');
   const [{ Error: error, StatusCode: statusCode }] = await dockerClient.run(
     imageName,
     args,
     logStream,
     {
       Volumes: { '/result': {}, '/template': {} },
-      WorkingDir: '/home',
       HostConfig: {
         Binds: [
           // Need to use realpath here as Docker mounting does not like
           // symlinks for binding volumes
           `${await fs.promises.realpath(resultDir)}:/result`,
           `${await fs.promises.realpath(templateDir)}:/template`,
-          `${__dirname}:/home`,
         ],
       },
       User,
+      Env: ['HOME=/tmp'],
       ...createOptions,
     },
   );