diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index fe73520f9d..0d892bb34f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1433,6 +1433,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "sfw-provider-requests",
  "sphinx",
+ "tempfile",
  "tokio 0.2.10",
  "tokio-tungstenite",
  "topology",
diff --git a/nym-client/Cargo.toml b/nym-client/Cargo.toml
index 09939462d3..3e5922af22 100644
--- a/nym-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/nym-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ tokio-tungstenite = { git = "https://github.com/snapview/tokio-tungstenite", rev
 [build-dependencies]
 built = "0.3.2"
 
+[dev-dependencies]
+tempfile = "3.1.0"
+
 [features]
 qa = []
 local = []
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/nym-client/src/config/mod.rs b/nym-client/src/config/mod.rs
index 6eac43c16a..69cb059aee 100644
--- a/nym-client/src/config/mod.rs
+++ b/nym-client/src/config/mod.rs
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ mod client_config {
 
     #[test]
     fn after_saving_default_config_the_loaded_one_is_identical() {
-        let temp_location = std::env::temp_dir().join("config.toml");
+        let temp_location = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap().path().join("config.toml");
         let default_config = Config::default().with_id("foomp".to_string());
         default_config
             .save_to_file(Some(temp_location.clone()))