diff --git a/release.nix b/release.nix
index 0ee75e9a8..4269a3f76 100644
--- a/release.nix
+++ b/release.nix
@@ -97,10 +97,6 @@ let
 
         enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-        sandboxProfile = lib.sandbox.allowFileRead [
-          "/etc" "/etc/nix/nix.conf" "/private/etc/nix/nix.conf"
-        ];
-
         makeFlags = "profiledir=$(out)/etc/profile.d";
 
         preBuild = "unset NIX_INDENT_MAKE";