diff --git a/lib/bundler/compact_index_client/updater.rb b/lib/bundler/compact_index_client/updater.rb
index 06486f98cb..d9b9cec0d4 100644
--- a/lib/bundler/compact_index_client/updater.rb
+++ b/lib/bundler/compact_index_client/updater.rb
@@ -76,11 +76,6 @@ module Bundler
 
           update(local_path, remote_path, :retrying)
         end
-      rescue Errno::EACCES
-        raise Bundler::PermissionError,
-          "Bundler does not have write access to create a temp directory " \
-          "within #{Dir.tmpdir}. Bundler must have write access to your " \
-          "systems temp directory to function properly. "
       rescue Zlib::GzipFile::Error
         raise Bundler::HTTPError
       end
diff --git a/spec/bundler/bundler/compact_index_client/updater_spec.rb b/spec/bundler/bundler/compact_index_client/updater_spec.rb
index 4acd7dbc63..fe417e3920 100644
--- a/spec/bundler/bundler/compact_index_client/updater_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/bundler/bundler/compact_index_client/updater_spec.rb
@@ -36,16 +36,6 @@ RSpec.describe Bundler::CompactIndexClient::Updater do
     end
   end
 
-  context "when bundler doesn't have permissions on Dir.tmpdir" do
-    it "Errno::EACCES is raised" do
-      allow(Bundler::Dir).to receive(:mktmpdir) { raise Errno::EACCES }
-
-      expect do
-        updater.update(local_path, remote_path)
-      end.to raise_error(Bundler::PermissionError)
-    end
-  end
-
   context "when receiving non UTF-8 data and default internal encoding set to ASCII" do
     let(:response) { double(:response, :body => "\x8B".b) }