diff --git a/meta/classes/ccache.bbclass b/meta/classes/ccache.bbclass
index 262db6672c..7c42e66bdf 100644
--- a/meta/classes/ccache.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/ccache.bbclass
@@ -44,16 +44,6 @@ export CCACHE_CONFIGPATH ?= "${COREBASE}/meta/conf/ccache.conf"
 
 export CCACHE_DIR ?= "${CCACHE_TOP_DIR}/${MULTIMACH_TARGET_SYS}/${PN}"
 
-# Fixed errors:
-# ccache: error: Failed to create directory /run/user/0/ccache-tmp: Permission denied
-export CCACHE_TEMPDIR ?= "${CCACHE_DIR}/tmp"
-
-# We need to stop ccache considering the current directory or the
-# debug-prefix-map target directory to be significant when calculating
-# its hash. Without this the cache would be invalidated every time
-# ${PV} or ${PR} change.
-export CCACHE_NOHASHDIR ?= "1"
-
 python() {
     """
     Enable ccache for the recipe
diff --git a/meta/conf/ccache.conf b/meta/conf/ccache.conf
index 499e5327b8..377eb42196 100644
--- a/meta/conf/ccache.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/ccache.conf
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
-max_size = 0
-
 # Avoid spurious cache misses caused by recipe sysroot creation: Creating a
 # recipe sysroot hardlinks all dependent files into place. Hardlinking updates
 # the file's ctime which in turn interferes with ccache's include_file_ctime
 # check.
 sloppiness = include_file_ctime
+
+# We need to stop ccache considering the current directory or the
+# debug-prefix-map target directory to be significant when calculating
+# its hash. Without this the cache would be invalidated every time
+# ${PV} or ${PR} change.
+hash_dir = false
+
+# If ccache runs under pseudo it will try to create files in /run/user/0/ccache-tmp
+temporary_dir = $CCACHE_DIR/tmp